Порядок слов в английском языке фиксированный: подлежащее + сказуемое + дополнение + обстоятельство I don’t speak French very well. She ate ice-cream yesterday. They met Ann at the concert.

Word Order

Exercise№1. Make a sentence paying attention to the word order.

1. is / best / she / friend / my

2. learn / different / students / our / subjects

3. the / is / Russia / the / in / country / the / largest / world

4. the story / much / I / very / like

5. are playing / in the yard / the children / ball

6. large / my / have / in the country / a house / friends

7. they / every Friday / parties / give

8. in / the city / we / a flat / live / the center / of / in

9. a lot of / writes / every day / he / letters

Если в предложении несколько обстоятельств, они ставятся в следующей последовательности: как? где? когда / как долго? She works hard at the office every day. После глаголов движения (go, come, leave, etc) обстоятельства обычно употребляются в другой последовательности: куда? как? когда? They came to the party together at 9 o’clock. Always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never, also, probably, etc стоят перед смысловым глаголом, но после глагола to be и модальных глаголов. He probably knows about it. We don’t usually have lectures on Saturday. I am never late. Bob can never wake up early in the morning.

Exercise№2. Put the parts of a sentence in the correct order.

1. to the bank / every Friday / I go

2. around the town / often / I walk

3. on Saturday night / I didn’t see / at the party / you

4. together / chess / every day / Henry and Joy / play

5. yesterday / Peter / some bad mistakes / made / in his Russian test

6. the Turners / last night / saw / at the cinema / we

7. the news / she / every morning / listens to / on the radio

8. in his room / Tom / at seven o’clock / morning exercises / does

9. Pam / alone / in her study / prefers to work / in the morning

10. Came / together / they / to the party / at about 9 o’clock

Exercise№3. Decide whether the underlined words are in right position or not. Correct the sentences which are wrong.

1. I have a good memory for faces but I always forget names.

2. Those tourists probably are American.

3. Tom gets hardly ever angry.

4. I did some shopping and also went to the bank.

5. The baby is very good. She cries seldom during the night.

6. I usually am very tired when I get home from work.

7. I usually have a bath when I get home from work.

Если в предложении несколько определений, то они употребляются в следующей последовательности: прилагательное, выражающее отношение или мнение говорящего, прилагательное, описывающее предмет (1. Размер, 2. Возраст, 3. Цвет, 4. Происхождение, 5. Материал, 6. Назначение). A large round old brown Chinese wooden kitchen table.

Exercise№4. Put down adjectives in the correct order.

1. Ice-cream: strawberry, delicious, French

2. A carpet: Persian, bright, wonderful, silk

3. A girl: young, slim, tall

4. A legend: old, Indian, beautiful

5. A bag: green, ordinary, school

6. A belt: leather, brown, unusual, Italian, new

7. A machine: white, big, German, washing, new

Exercise№5. Translate into English.

1. Мне очень нравится этот французский мягкий увлажняющий крем для рук.

2. Аня любит свой новый красивый шерстяной синий свитер.

3. Она покупает духи редко.

4. Наш поезд прибывает ранним утром в Нижний Новгород.

5. Мы играем в футбол очень часто.