[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"grammar-exercise-01a0e1ab-d6bf-7046-b3b3-8da52b9f5518":3,"grammar-exercise-lesson-019b60ae-8671-7359-a1e1-3720df925735":97},{"id":4,"grammarPage":5,"title":6,"instructions":7,"seoTitle":8,"seoDescription":9,"displayOrder":10,"type":11,"questions":12,"ogImageUrl":96},"01a0e1ab-d6bf-7046-b3b3-8da52b9f5518","\u002Fapi\u002Fgrammar_pages\u002F019b60ae-8671-7359-a1e1-3720df925735","Frequency: Sort Meanings and Questions","Tap each tile, then tap its matching column. Read the sorting rule for each board.","Frequency adverbs: sort meanings and uses","Sort frequency words, expressions and short questions by meaning and use, then identify double negatives in sentences about leisure and daily life.",6,"word_sort",[13,36,55,74],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-d6bf-7126-b3b3-8da52c3dcc96","Which frequency adverbs already have a negative meaning?",0,"Never means on no occasions; rarely and hardly ever mean almost never. These adverbs already carry negative meaning, unlike usually, often and sometimes. Do not add not to them in the ordinary sentences practised here. For example: The baby rarely cries during a journey.",[],{"items":20,"categories":35},[21,24,26,28,31,33],{"text":22,"category":23},"usually","No negative meaning",{"text":25,"category":23},"sometimes",{"text":27,"category":23},"often",{"text":29,"category":30},"never","Negative meaning",{"text":32,"category":30},"rarely",{"text":34,"category":30},"hardly ever",[30,23],{"id":37,"sentenceTemplate":38,"displayOrder":39,"explanation":40,"blanks":41,"payload":42},"01a0e1ab-d6bf-7172-b3b3-8da52cbde9c0","Sort the questions by what they ask: frequency, or whether something happens at any time.",1,"How often asks about the frequency of a habit. Ever in a yes\u002Fno question asks whether it happens at any time, rather than asking for a rate. With do or does, ever follows the subject. For example: Have you ever stayed on a farm?",[],{"items":43,"categories":54},[44,47,49,52],{"text":45,"category":46},"How often do you go swimming?","How frequently it happens",{"text":48,"category":46},"How often does he buy a newspaper?",{"text":50,"category":51},"Do you ever go fishing?","Whether it happens at any time",{"text":53,"category":51},"Does she ever take a taxi?",[51,46],{"id":56,"sentenceTemplate":57,"displayOrder":58,"explanation":59,"blanks":60,"payload":61},"01a0e1ab-d6bf-71aa-b3b3-8da52d55dac9","In ordinary standard English, which sentences incorrectly add not to an adverb with negative meaning?",2,"Never and hardly ever already have negative meaning, so adding not creates the double-negative error practised here. Usually and often are not negative, so they can follow don’t or isn’t. For example: The museum is rarely busy in January, not The museum isn’t rarely busy in January.",[],{"items":62,"categories":73},[63,66,68,71],{"text":64,"category":65},"We don't never rent bikes.","Incorrect double negative",{"text":67,"category":65},"The pool isn't hardly ever empty.",{"text":69,"category":70},"We don't usually hire a boat.","No double negative",{"text":72,"category":70},"The beach isn't often crowded.",[70,65],{"id":75,"sentenceTemplate":76,"displayOrder":77,"explanation":78,"blanks":79,"payload":80},"01a0e1ab-d6bf-71de-b3b3-8da52d7efbe3","Sort the tiles into frequency adverbs and frequency expressions that normally go at the beginning or end.",3,"Frequency expressions give a repeating interval or a number of occasions per period and normally go at the beginning or end. Frequency adverbs normally take a middle position, though normally can also begin a sentence and fronted often is mainly formal or literary. For example: My aunt checks her post once a day.",[],{"items":81,"categories":95},[82,85,87,89,92,94],{"text":83,"category":84},"twice a month","Frequency expressions",{"text":86,"category":84},"three times a year",{"text":88,"category":84},"every day",{"text":90,"category":91},"always","Frequency adverbs",{"text":93,"category":91},"normally",{"text":27,"category":91},[84,91],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_4b4bcb66-28d6-4c81-a5ca-273e34315f2e_hero.webp?v=1790492530",{"title":98,"slug":99,"language":100,"level":101},"Adverbs of Frequency (A2)","adverbs-of-frequency-a2","en","A2"]