Question

Choose the sentence that uses the adverb in the correct position:
She lost her temper. (seldom)
a) She seldom lost her temper.
b) Seldom she lost her temper.
c) She lost her temper seldom.
d) None of the above.

Answer 1

Hint:An adverb is a part of a speech that offers a greater definition of a verb, adjective, other adverb, a sentence, a clause or a phrase.

Complete Answer:
Adverbs can be identified by looking for a word ending in -ly from a phrase. While this is not necessarily valid, it is a strong starting point. These fundamental elements of the English language are often typically placed right before or after the verb in the sentence, despite their purpose.
Seldom refers to something that is not frequent or something which is rare. The origin of the word is from Middle English. Let us look at an example here.
“This island is seldom visited by tourists.”

So, now we must go through these phrases given as options to find out which phrase uses the adverb (seldom) in the correct position.
>She seldom lost her temper: In this phrase, “seldom” is placed in the correct position., before the main verb “lost”. So, this is the correct answer. Adverbs of frequency are generally placed before the main verb or after the auxiliary verb.
>Seldom she lost her temper: While adverbs can be placed at the beginning of the sentence, but the tense of the verb “lost” makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. Also, such sentence construction isn’t usually spoken in English language.
>She lost her temper seldom: This option is incorrect because as we know adverbs of frequency should be put before the main verb but in this given sentence “seldom” is placed at the end of the sentence, after the main verb.
>None of the above: This option automatically becomes incorrect because option a) is the correct answer.

So,from the above explanation we can clearly say that the correct answer is “She seldom lost her temper” is the correct answer.

Hence option ‘b’ is the correct answer.

Note:Adverbs are intensifiers and can also come in the form of an adverb sentence. That simply means that you are looking at two or more words which act as an adverb.