"Il s'habillait vraiment mal quand il était jeune."

Translation: He used to dress really badly when he was young.

[mesterbig]

Guilty!

[Sheree_]

What about, "He really used to dress badly when he was young."?

[eduard830406]

I said:

He used to really dress badly when he was young (avoiding the two adverbs together, Duo marked me wrong.

[eduard830406]

So two adverbs in a row always follow a structure where the former one modifies the latter one. Based on this you can't have three adverbs in a row. But if we place a conjuction between the words "slowly" and "unusually" in the first example, then the sentence reads well: He was speaking slowly and unusually.



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Two adverbs in a row with "-ly" - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

DUO, please check this, thank you.

[GraemeSarg]

Have you read your own link?

Grammatically you can have as many as you like. The only issue is over-egging the custard!

[flo486620]

"when he was young he really used to dress badly" est refusé?

[mnarhins]

The prompt was "Type what you hear". So I typed "Ils s'habillaient vraiment mal quand ils étaient jeunes". Is there in this case actually a difference in pronunciation between the singular and the plural sentences?

[GraemeSarg]

Yes. There would be a liaison between "ils" and "étaient". You would hear a "z" sound from the plural "s".

[GraemeSarg]

"He would dress really badly when he was young." Accepted.