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Anonymous  +  163140 Sat, 26 Nov 05 08:44 PM

Hi

I am wondering about the sentence:

she went to the park quickly 

is the use of the adverb here correct?
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paco2004  +  163150 Sat, 26 Nov 05 10:17 PM
Hello Anon

The usual order of adverbials is manner - direction/place - time. So, "She went quickly to the park" or "She quickly went to the park" may be more natural. Personally I prefer the latter.

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Clive  +  163180 Sun, 27 Nov 05 12:49 AM

Hi guys,

She went to the park quickly seems to me like the most natural thing to say.

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khoff  +  163190 Sun, 27 Nov 05 01:17 AM
Have I forgotten what a transitive verb is?  I don't see one in this example.Huh? [:^)]
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paco2004  +  163192 Sun, 27 Nov 05 01:22 AM
 Clive wrote:
She went to the park quickly seems to me like the most natural thing to say.
Really?

Google Results:
      [1] She quickly went to the X.  1280.
      [2] She went quickly to the X.  694.
      [3] She went to the X quickly. 246.

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paco2004  +  163196 Sun, 27 Nov 05 01:27 AM
 Khoff wrote:
Have I forgotten what a transitive verb is?  I don't see one in this example.Huh? [:^)]

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Clive  +  163207 Sun, 27 Nov 05 02:41 AM

Hi Paco,

Google results are hard to assess.

1. These results seem miniscule.

2. I wrote about 'speaking'. People don't speak on the 'net. The question is, 'To what extent do they write as they speak?'

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paco2004  +  163213 Sun, 27 Nov 05 03:01 AM

Minuscule? Then how about the results below?
Google Results:

      [1] X quickly went to the Y..  73,100
      [2] X went quickly to the Y.   26,800.
      [3] X  went to the Y … quickly.  33,000
#3 includes samples that is not actually a single sentence.

As to your second point, I can't argue against.
There is no spoken English corpus online.
But I rather believe people online mostly write as they speak.

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CalifJim  +  163243 Sun, 27 Nov 05 05:22 AM
In spite of those impressive Google statistics I too have to say that
"X went to Y quickly"
positions the adverb most naturally.
At least that's true for me.
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