Are there any rules on the positioning adverbs should take in a sentence?

Question

For example:

Ever wish you could share information broadly

Could it be rewrite to:

Ever wish you could broadly share information

Are there any rules for the position of the adverbs.

Answer 1

The positioning of the Adverb would be based on the impact which our sentence / question needs to make. In the sense:

The first sentence :Ever wish you could share information broadly?

This would be more effective when used to catch the readers attention. probably an advertisement/ headline where the idea is to make all readers imagine "broadly"

The second one :Ever wish you could broadly share information??

This probably has more stress on the "information" rather than "broadly". It would sound "more apt" in a paragraph.. rather than a headline

Again, it depends on how the message needs to be sent across. Both the options are correct

Answer 2

When an adverb modifies a verb, you can usually put it either before, between, or after:

Adverb = 'often', verb = 'go'

Before:

Often, I go for long walks.

Between:

I often go for long walks.

End:

I go for long walks often.

These aren't all equally common; you would probably find the between position used the most.

In your example, you are asking a question, so the 'before' position can't really be used.

Broadly, ever wish you could share information?

Just doesn't work.

But the between and end position are equally valid. I would say that, again, the between position sounds best.

Ever wish you could broadly share information?