late | soon (end position) – English Grammar Profiler

“Late” and “soon” are both adverbs of time that can be used in the usual end position in a sentence.

• “Late” is used to describe something that happens after the expected, usual or planned time. For example, “He arrived late for the meeting.” In this sentence, “late” tells us when he arrived for the meeting.
• “Soon” is used to describe something that will happen in a short time from now, or a short time after the moment of speaking. For example, “I will see you soon.” In this sentence, “soon” tells us when I will see you.

These adverbs provide information about the timing of an action, and placing them at the end of a sentence is a common practice in English.

In the English Grammar Profile, A1 point 15 in the category of ADVERBS is defined:

time adverbs in the usual end position.

The EGP only lists ‘soon’ and ‘late’ as examples for this point.  However, this point overlaps ‘adjuncts’ in time expressions at A1:

A2 increasing range of adverbs:

B2 past simple + range of time adjuncts:

STUDENT EXAMPLE:

They always went back late.

PELIC Chinese male level 3 writing class.

A search in iWeb corpus for:

* _VV * soon .

1 TO SEE YOU SOON. 612

Anyway thanks for thinking of me and I hope to see you soon.

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2 TO CHANGE ANYTIME SOON. 520 3 YOU FEEL BETTER SOON. 517 4 TO HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON. 368 5 TO SEEING YOU SOON. 350 6 . SEE YOU SOON. 341 7 IS COMING UP SOON. 221 8 TO STOP ANYTIME SOON. 220 9 I SPOKE TOO SOON. 196

10 PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON. 184

For results 11-50, we had AI group our data as follows: