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I told Liz not to come on Monday.

I told Liz to not come on Monday.

Position not in the negative infinitive immediately before the word to and not after it.

I should not have gone.

I should have not gone.

Position not in a compound verb after the first auxiliary.

With the present or perfect participle, place not at the beginning: Not having set the alarm, he was late for work. Not being rich, he couldn't afford it.

I went to the cinema last night.

I last night went to the cinema.

Adverbs or adverbial phrases of definite time, like yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, two months ago, are usually placed at the end of the sentence. If we want to emphasise the time, we put the adverb at the beginning: Yesterday I was very busy.

If there is more than one adverb of definite time in a sentence, put the more exact expression before the more general: He was bom at two o'clock in the morning on April 12th 1942.

Janet wrote carefully her essay.

Janet wrote her essay carefully.

With a transitive verb, the adverb generally comes after the object.

If, however, the object is long, the adverb may come after the transitive verb: She wrote carefully all the essays she had to do.

They always come to school by bus.

They come always to school by bus.

Place adverbs of indefinite time, like ever, never, always, often, seldom, soon, sometimes and the adverbs almost, scarcely, hardly, nearly, even, before the principal verb.

With the verb to be place the adverb of indefinite time after the verb: They are always beautifully dressed.

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