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Dear Rosie,

Thank you for your advice on frequency adverbs. I often tend to make mistake on this. I'm doing the homework so that I remember it forever - it should come after 'be' verb (am, is , are, was, were etc.) and before all other verbs.

1. Mr. Couch rarely does the washing up.
2. He usually sleeps until midday on Sundays.
3. He hardly ever does his English homework. (but I usually do!)
4. Mr. Couch sometimes lies on his sofa watching TV.
5. He often goes to the gym to exercise.
6. He always phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner.

Would you kindly give me an example of the usage of 'from time to time'. Secondly, I've noticed that while writing Mr. Couch, you wrote Mr (without the dot), is it a practice in British English? Or, is it a modern trend?

Regards,
Rajeeb

Hi Rosie!

Here is my homework:

1) Mr Couch hardly ever does the washing up.

2) He always sleeps until midday on Sundays.

3) He never does his English homework.

4) Mr Couch often lies on his sofa watching TV.

5) He never goes to the gym to exercise.

6) He sometimes phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

Very funny this Mr. Couch!!

See you!
Ariadna from Argentina

Hi, Rosie,

Thank you for all you wrote to us. I have learnt so much English skills from you.
My homework's answers as following,

1) Mr Couch rarely does the washing up.
2) He always sleeps until midday on Sundays.
3) He does his English homework from time to time.
4) Mr Couch offen lies on his sofa watching TV.
5) He hardly ever goes to the gym to exercise.
6) He usually phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

Hope my answers are right. ha! Ms Roise, I have read all the blogs you teachers and students wrote. That is hard to find a web site like this. I could read English writings and different comments from all over the world. It is a real world unity. Thank you all so much!

And, I have a English question to ask. It is from the teacher Graciela's blog she just posted- The torch is coming to town! The first sentence on her blog's fifth paragraph she wrote that "A picnic on a Brighton beach went swimmingly". Sometimes, I saw after a verb using an adverb to make a completed sentence, like it. Is it better to use a noun or an adjective after a verb? Do there have any criteria of using an adverb after a verb to make a sentence? When I'm making sentences it always bothers me. Thanks for solving my problem.

Blessings,
Sai-fung from Hong Kong

Hi Rosi ,
It 's my first comment on your Blog ! I 'm Pary from Iran and I have visited ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Blog almost from the first . We are so lucky to have ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ kind and motivate teachers ! and here is my homework

1) Mr Couch rarely does the washing up.

2) He often sleeps until midday on Sundays.

3) He from time to time does his English homework.

4) Mr Couch always lies on his sofa watching TV.

5) He hardly ever goes to the gym to exercise.

6) He usually phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

I think there are more than one answers , are n't ?
have a nice days and bye

Sorry I must write A nice day ! just A slip of the thumb ;)

Hi Rosie,

All of your corrections you made give us a big help in our learning process.
I agree with most of the answers above and I would like to add a new sentence for them trying to use 'from time to time' structure.

He does his English homework from time to time but he should do that more often in order to archive a higher level of English.

Please, keep on helping us as you have done it for weeks.

Yours truly

Krisztina from Hungary

This is Krisztina again.

I mean: ... in order to 'achieve' a higher level of English.

Have a nice day for you.

Krisztina

Let's practise using frequency adverbs: always, often, usually, sometimes, from time to time, rarely, hardly ever, never.

1) Mr Couch rarely does the washing up.

2) He always sleeps until midday on Sundays.

3) He never does his English homework.

4) Mr Couch often lies on his sofa watching TV.

5) He never ever goes to the gym to exercise.

6) He often phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

Precede before never and ever usually has/have for present perfect but to do this ought to change your verb to be past participle, it sounds strange to me in present simple tense. To improve our writing we must read and write as much as possible, the more we gain the more we confidence. Just use it naturally and not to mention correctness for grammatical which I think sometimes happen even to a english speaking persons.

Don't you think so!

from Jow

Hi Rosie,
Please, help me !!!
What is the difference between "have" and "have got"
I wonder if you could give me some examples.
Thank you.

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@ Krisztina from Hungary,

Thanks for the example of 'from time to time'. I really appreciate it. Have a great day!

Regards,
Rajeeb from India

Hallo Rosie,

First, some words about human relations. I do believe that platonic friendsip is quite possible between men and women. Why not? Indeed, interpersonal relations vary within a wide spectrum of attitudes, including love, friendship, fellowship, acquaintance, with a lot of nuances. This wide spectrum leaves much space for nonsexual communications, especially for people who have quited their hypersexual ages, isn't it?

The hometask.
1) Mr Couch hardly ever does the washing up.
2) He always sleeps until midday on Sundays.
3) He rarely does his English homework.
4) Mr Couch usually lies on his sofa watching TV.
5) He never goes to the gym to exercise.
6) He often phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

Best regards,

Yury_Sh

Hello Rosie,

I find your each lesson so useful and interesting and do you know why? I feel that you are doing the job that you like very much and you are doing it with full of hearth. So It makes sense :-) Now ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½work:

1) Mr Couch never\rarely does the washing up.

2) He usually sleeps until midday on Sundays.

3) He does his English homework hardly.

4) Mr Couch often lies on his sofa watching TV.

5) From time to time\Sometimes he goes to the gym to exercise.

6) He always\ever phones his girlfriend because he feels too tired to walk to her house - even though she lives round the corner!

I tried to use all adverbs of frequency to not leave any of them without attention :-) I hope I also used them correctly and in proper way.

Sofiko