1. 方式副词、地点副词、时间副词
（1）通常用于主要动词之后。如果动词有宾语，则用在宾语之后，如：
She sang beautifully.
（2）如果在句子中这几种副词同时出现，通常的次序为方式副词、地点副词、时间副词，如：
She spoke very well at the city hall last night.
方式副词可以用于主要动词前面。但是，如果动词是句子的最后一个词则很少用于动词前面，如：
She silently counted five, then put the receiver down.
She listened silently.
（3）如果动词词组包含一个或多个助动词，可以将方式副词用于主要动词之前或第一个助动词之后，特别是当其中是个情态助动词时，如：
She had carefully measured out his dose of medicine before then.
They might easily have been taken for brothers.
（4）大多数不以-ly结尾的副词只用于动词或动词宾语后面，如：
I work hard and play hard.
The train goes fast.
（5）在描述性文体中，为了强调，方式、地点、时间副词有时用于句首，如：
Recently, I went to Berlin. It was very interesting …
She rang the bell for Sal. In came a girl she had not seen before.
（6）不用于be动词之前，如：
I was recently in Berlin.
2. 观点副词
常用于句首，然后稍微停顿一下，书面上则用逗号隔开， 这样就起到了修饰后面句子的作用，如：
Surprisingly, most of my help came from the technicians.
3. 频率副词和可能性副词
（1）常用于第一个助动词后或主要动词之前，如：
They can probably afford another one.
I usually have cream in my coffee.
（2）也可以用于句首，如：
Sometimes we get a lot of rain in August.
Presumably they brought him home and he invited them in.
（3）在没有助动词时需用于be动词之后，如：
Debbie is sometimes not responsible for what she does.
She was definitely scared.
（4）用于don’t、won’t等否定简略式之前，如：
We usually don’t get up before 9 on Sundays.
It probably won’t be that bad.