Tuesday, September 16, 2014

word order - Place of "often" in the sentence



My question is simple. Is the following sentence correct?




They don't watch TV often.




My English teacher has told me that the only correct option is:





They don't often watch TV.




Is she right?


Answer



I think she is wrong. "They don't often watch TV" certainly isn't the only correct option.



As just one piece of evidence you could consider the Google result counts for these phrases (switched to "I" to get more representative data):





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