Spanish · Chapter 39 · Lesson 15 · Grammar primer
Adverbs of place, time and degree
The non -mente adverbs: aqui/alli, arriba/abajo, ya/todavia, pronto/tarde, and the classic trap muy vs mucho (muy caro but cuesta mucho), plus where adverbs sit in the sentence.
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Muy or mucho, settled in one line
Put muy in front of a describing word, an adjective or an adverb: muy grande, muy rápido. Put mucho after a verb, or in front of a noun where it agrees like an adjective: mucha suerte, muchos amigos. The two never stack. Very much is muchísimo, and muy mucho does not exist.
trabaja mucho
Never wedge an adverb into a compound tense
English happily says he has always eaten. Spanish glues haber to its participle and will not let anything in between. So it is siempre he comido or he comido siempre, never he siempre comido. The same goes for ya and nunca: ya he terminado, not he ya terminado.
siempre he comido
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