Adverbials - Place: Location

Prepositions are used to talk about where someone or something is:
She was sitting by the window.
They live in a town near the sea.
I left my keys in my other jacket.

Phrases with prepositions can have 'of'.
My house is at the end of the street.
The file is on top of the cabinet.

Intensifiers like 'right' and 'just' can be used with some of these adverbials:
I managed to park just in front of the house.
I put the picture right above the table.
There's a park right behind our house.

We place adverbials of place at the end position of a sentence except when we want to emphasise them:
I turned the corner and there, just in front of me, was the most beautiful statue I'd ever seen.
However:
I turned the corner and there was the most beautiful statue I'd ever seen in front of me.
Is more usual especially in writing.

Adverbials of location are normally followed by adverbials of time.
We sat under a tree for three hours.

Lesson by Tristan, English teacher at EC Malta

Choose the correct version of the following:

• 1) Which is correct?
  
  Put the cake in the middle of the table.
  Put in the middle of the table the cake.
  
  
• 2) Which is correct?
  
  I stood for the whole concert right in front of the stage.
  I stood right in front of the stage for the whole concert.
  
  
• 3) Which is correct?
  
  Could you please sign your name at the bottom of the page?
  Could you please sign at the bottom of the page your name?
  
  
• 4) Which is correct?
  
  She walked into the room and sat next to me.
  She walked into the room and next to me sat.
  
  
• 5) Which is correct?
  
  A flower pot fell off a window sill and landed just in front of me.
  A flower pot fell off a window sill and right in front of me landed.
  
  
• 6) Which is correct?
  
  They walked slowly down the street.
  They walked down the street slowly.