ADVERBS OF MANNER

Meaning. An adverb of manner is a word that tells us in a sentence how

something has happened.
Formation. Adverbs of manner are formed by adding ly to the end of an
adjective. But there are some rules:

Adjectives ending in l add ly

Careful Carefully

Adjectives ending in y change to ily

Luck Luckily

Adjectives ending in -ble change to bly

Responsible Responsibly

Position. The position of the adverbs depends on the kind of adverb, but
adverbs of manner are usually placed after the main verb or after the object.
Examples:

A) He dances well. (After the main verb)

He runs... rapidly, slowly, quickly.
She spoke... softly, loudly, aggressively.
I laughed loudly to attract her attention.
B) He plays the piano beautifully. (After the object)
He ate the strawberry cake greedily.

Exercise

Adverb formation. (Fill the gaps in the chart below.)

Adjectives
1

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bad

angry

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6
7

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mysterious

Adverbs
slowly
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carefully
quietly
calmly
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Instructions: Choose a word in brackets to fill the gaps correctly. Exercise

1. Ana and Jenny dance the tango ________________________ (beautiful /
beautifully).
2. She planned their trip to Greece very ________________________ (careful /
carefully).
3. Jim painted the kitchen very ________________________ (bad / badly).
4. She sings very ________________________ (quiet / quietly).
5. Turn the stereo down. It's too ________________________ (loud / loudly).
6. He skipped ________________________ down the road to school (safe / safely).
7. He drives too ________________________. (slow / slowly)
8. Hermes knows the road ________________________ (good / well).
9. He plays the sax ________________________ (terrible / terribly).
10.We're camping tomorrow so we went to sleep _____________________
(happily / happy)
11.Any doesn't often work ________________________ (hard / hardly).
12.Sometimes our teacher arrived ________________________ for class (late /
lately).

Instructions: Unscramble the sentences correctly.

1. carefully / clean / floor / the / You / must
2. new / The / secretary / slowly / works / very
3. the / test / has / studying / student / The / for / been / hard
4. news / knew / smiled / he / When / happily / the / he
5. do / can / these / brother / My / easily / exercises
6. specially / this / made / cake / I / you / for
7. play / played / beautifully / piano / She / school / the / in / the
8. dentist / waiting / children / were / The / the / for / impatiently

Exercise

9. the / The / explained / teacher / angrily / lesson

10.difficult / solved / that / quickly / Peter / problem
11.street / previous / Susan / wrongly / turned / the / in
12.cowarly / policeman / behaved / a / in / The / way
13.rains / it / when / sister / My / sleeps / badly / little
14.enthusiastically / is / team / The / playing
15.his / husband / reading / book / My / is / bedroom / a / silently / in
16.station / train / The / left / the / hurriedly

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Exercise
Instructions: Choose an adjective from the box transform it to an adverb, then
write it in the sentences correctly.
quiet / slow / careful / fast / nervous / sad /lucky

1. Sheila can type ________________.

2. ________________, Susan has found her purse.
3. He looked ________________ inside the room.
4. She threw away the letter ________________.
5. The teacher explained the lesson ________________.
6.

The boys cried ________________, because their pet passed away.

7.

He spoke ________________, so I didn't understand him.