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21. Avril 2006, 11:43:54

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I have a question regarding the position of adverbs in a sentence with multi-word verbs.

For example, which one of the following sentences is O.K.?

1) In what could loosely be called your life, you've made a living watching others.

2)In what loosely could be called your life, you've made a living watching others.

3)In what could be loosely called your life, you've made a living watching others.

4)in what could be called loosely your life, you've made a living watching others.

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1)He may probably have gone out.

2)He probably may have gone out.

3)He may have probably gone out.

4)He may have gone out probably.

21. Avril 2006, 16:15:36

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رضا: well in all respects رضا those sentences look foreign. I guess IF You had to write it out with the adverb that you chose.. I would say..

1) In what could loosely be called your life, you've made a living watching others.

and

3)In what could be loosely called your life, you've made a living watching others.

but I don't think a scholar would include the word loosely in the sentence.

In what could be called your life, you've made a living watching others.

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and in your second example none of the sentences make sense..

He may have gone out. would be the correct way of expressing this..

May and probably are different words, however they are being used the same .. Now.. if you switch and use probably your sentence would look like this..

He probably has gone out.

Hopefully I haven't confused ya..

21. Avril 2006, 18:05:33

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ScarletRose: Nope, you haven't confused me at all. Well, the first sentence is a direct copy-paste from a movie named Saw II. So I wouldn't say it's wrong. Maybe not polite enough? If that's the problem with it, well that movie isn't a kind of 'polite' movie at all.

About the second example, I just figured it out that you're saying that because both may and probably have the same meaning.

So what if I change probably with already?

1)He may already have gone out.

2)He already may have gone out.

3)He may have already gone out.

4)He may have gone out already.