adverb placement?

[Schellib39]

Hey guys just a quick question on the placement of adverbs in these 3 statements:

-We agreed to to do the job immediately
-We agreed immediately to do the job
-Immediately we agreed to do the job

These were 3 statements students answered a question to a test with. Would you count any of these answers as grammatically correct and give full credit for the answer? Give partial credit, or new credit at all?

The original answer was supposed to be: We immediately agreed to do the job.

[SBracken]

The first and second are both easily correct.

The third... I think needs a comma: "Immediately, we agreed to do the job."
I would say it's a correct sentence, there's just a lot of emphasis placed on the 'immediately'. It would sound a bit more natural as part of a compound sentence: 'We heard she needed help, and immediately we agreed to do the job.'

[Yu_Bumsuk]

They're all correct. Adverb placement is often flexible. Any teacher who's basing test questions on it, except perhaps for 'not', seriously doesn't / doesn't seriously know what they're doing. 

[Davox]

They all mean different things.
We agreed to to do the job immediately: We will start the job right away.
We agreed immediately to do the job: We accepted the job right after we were asked if we wanted it.
Immediately we agreed to do the job: We accepted the job right after whatever happened in the previous sentence.

SBracken is right though, the third sentence does work much better with a comma after 'Immediately.'

[Yu_Bumsuk]

They all mean different things.
We agreed to to do the job immediately: We will start the job right away.
We agreed immediately to do the job: We accepted the job right after we were asked if we wanted it.
Immediately we agreed to do the job: We accepted the job right after whatever happened in the previous sentence.

SBracken is right though, the third sentence does work much better with a comma after 'Immediately.'

If the teacher had a Korean translation of one of those meanings on the test it would be a fair question, though a typically poor non-communicative one.

[Schellib39]

Thank you for your help.  I did some research into it, time adverbs specifically.  After doing so , I would have to say I definitely agree with your answers. Even learned something today! thanks.