B.

Notice the use of adverbal expressions of time and place to relate two sentences
to each other.
1. We have breakfast at eight oclock. At nine oclock we have
class.
2. We have classes all morning. In the afternoon there is the
laboratory period.
3. Farms are usually small in the East. Father west you will find
COMMENTS
1) Each example sentence contains an adverbial expression of time or
place. In the second sentence of each pair, the adverbial is in initial
position. This adverbial helps relate the second sentences to the
first.
2) Often (but not always) the word there occurs between an adverbial
and a form of be (or certain other verbs). See sequences 2 and 4.

ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES
1. We began our practice of English sentences pattern with short sentences.

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Then we practiced long and complex sentences.

Later we practiced long and complex sentences.
Next we practiced long and complex sentences.
Afterwards we practiced long and complex sentences.
We are practicing long and complex sentences now.
Earlier we practiced short sentences.
We began practicing intonation the first day in class.
Before we had never heard of it.
It never snows in my country.
Here it snows a lot.
The winter is very cold here.
There it is warm.
I dont like the winter here.
Elsewhere I have enjeyod it.

Observe the use of there in the following sentences. Note that pattern with there
is used with certain verbs other than be after expressions of time or place.
1) New Mexico and Arizona were the first states we visited. Next there was
California.
2) Los angeles was the first city we visited. Next there came San Fransisco.
3) Driving to San Fransisco, we had the ocean on our left. On the east side there
rose high mountains

4) San Fransisco is on the west side of a large bay. On the east side there the
city of Barkeley.
5) We hadnt seen many forest in southern California. North of San Fransisco
there grow large forest of tall trees.
Observes the time and space and space organizations of the following sequences of
sentences.
I came here eight weeks ago. Seven weeks ago, I enrolled in this course . three
weeks ago. I took a examination. Last week , I applied for admission to the school of
Bussiness Adminitration. Today, I attended my first class there.
The State of Washington is in the northwest corner of the United States. South of
Washingtonthere is Oregon. East of Oregon and Washington there is Idaho. South of
Oregon along the pacific coast, the long state of California extends to the Mexican
border. Eastward from California, there lie Nevada and Arizona.

Exercise 4. Change the position of the time or place expression in the second
statement in order to relate it more closely to the first.
He gets up at 08:00.
He eats breakfast at 08:30
They grow cherries in Michigan.
They grow peaches in Georgia.
GEORGIAN
He studies from six until nine.
He reads the newspaper from nine until ten.
NINE

HE GETS UP
AT 08:00, AT 08:30
HE EATS BREAKFAST.
THEY GROW CHERRIES.
IN MICHIGAN, IN
THEY GROW PEACHES.
HE STUDIES FROM SIX.
UNTIL NINE. FROM
UNTIL TEN
HE READS THE

NEWSPAPER.