What are the correct possibilities for word order in the following sentence?
Is there any general rule for imperative sentences? (Like SVOMPT?)
- Please, check regularly the updated information about the meetings on the EBC website.
- Please, regularly check the updated information about the meetings on the EBC website.
- Please, check the updated information about the meetings on the EBC website regularly.
Something is telling me 1 isn't entirely correct, 2 maybe. I think 3 is correct, however I don't like the word regularly to be so far from the words check and information.
EDIT: attempt to summarize the answers:
- #1 sounds awkward to most people except for Barrie
- #2 seems to have least opponents
- the comma should be omitted
- new solution raised (from Hellion & Barrie England):
4) Please check regularly for updated information about the meetings on the EBC website.
Do you all think #4 is the best?
Best Answer
I don't do "correct", but I find 3 to be the most natural, 2 acceptable, and 1 something that no native English speaker would say.
Incidentally I find the comma after please rather awkward and foreign-sounding.