Timeline for How is the expression "very much" used and is "I like very much to play volleyball on weekends" correct?
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 16:51 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Oct 1, 2015 at 20:56 | comment | added | surlawda | I see what you mean. And adverbs are especially tricky. There are certain rules, but I think in the specific case you mention, it's less a question of grammar than idiom. Generally speaking, the closer an adverb is to the verb it is modifying, the better, BUT no one says "I very much love you"--they say, "I love you very much." In that sense, you are right to focus on what sounds better, though this can also be quite subjective. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | Letícia Wilhelm | I see, thanks for the input! But I cant exactly ask them to use "I love to play" because they are at the very begining of their studies and the exercise asked them to use "very much"... also, they always want to understand how they should use things, wich is terrible because the school's method don't accept grammatical explanations (it's based on neuro linguistic programming) and so I should know the grammar and explain in some other way. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 19:20 | history | answered | surlawda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |