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Adverb placement: where to put often, already, and carefully

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Put an adverb of frequency such as often or never before an ordinary main verb, but after be. Put a manner adverb such as carefully after the verb and its object. With an auxiliary verb, place many time and frequency adverbs after the first auxiliary.

Maya often reads the instructions carefully before she starts.
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