how we make adverbials

An adverbial can be an adverb:

He spoke angrily.
They live here.
We will be back soon.

or an adverb with a quantifier:

He spoke really angrily.
They live just here.
We will go quite soon.
We will go as soon as possible.

or a phrase with a preposition:

He spoke in an angry voice.
They live in London.
We will go in a few minutes.

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I got 5 out of 6:)

When I will use past simple and past perfect

Hello Dipankar,
Just type ' past simple and past perfect' in the search box at the top-right of most pages on LearnEnglish and you will see our pages about them. The first match is probably the most useful to summarise when we use the past simple and past perfect.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team

the first thing police did were was to retrieve the cctv footage from the parking place. Is it a correct sentences?

Hi dipankar!

It's nearly correct, but you have to decide between was and were (be verb forms). 'First thing' is singular, so you need was. We have pages about the grammar of be as well as information about plural and singular - check them out for more!

Hello,
Can we say(they just live here)??and whats the difference between this sentence and the *they live just here*.
With my regards

Hello shaxo,

There is actually quite an important difference. The first example,  They just live here means that they don't do anything else in that place. The second,  They live just here,  would be used to indicate where a house is.

For more on just try using our  Cambridge Dictionaries Online  search box on the right of this page.

Regards,

Stephen Jones
The LearnEnglish Team

so many thanks to learn English team

goog exercise, but I don't know question 4 clearly :
"The water rose extremely quickly"

hello,kukinh!
following is the structure of the sentence:
The water(subject)rose(verb)extemely(quantifier)quickly(adverb).
i wish that it could help you.

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