0607 CCPASS S2 English Grammar

Adverbs

Adverbs
Name: ____________________ ( ) Class: ______ Date: _______________ What are adverbs? They are used to describe actions, to modify adjectives or other adverbs in a sentence. Most adverbs end in ly, but there are many exceptions. Examples: slowly / dangerously / early / fast / lately / quickly / well / badly / hard What kinds of adverbs are there? There are different kinds of adverbs, including adverbs of time, adverbs of place, adverbs of certainty, adverbs of manner and adverbs of degree. They are usually used in various situations. Why do you use adverbs of manner and degree? Adverbs of manner show how something happens. They are usually placed after the main verb or after the object. Example: She dances beautifully. Adverbs of degree show the degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb. They are usually seen after the main verb but in front of the adjective or another adverb. Example: She dances very beautifully. More examples: fairly / quite / rather/ very / really / extremely How do you change adjectives into adverbs? Some adverbs can be derived from the adjectives. They are formed in different ways. The following shows the examples Adjectives With most adjectives You should + ly Examples bad badly quick quickly slow slowly gentle gently sensible sensibly terrible terribly busy busily easy easily happy happily early early fast fast hard hard good well

Ending in le

-e+y

Ending in ily

Change y to ily

With some adjectives

No change or new word

What else can we learn about the position of adverbs? The adverb should not be put between the verb and the object. Example: She corrected carefully her mistakes. She corrected her mistakes carefully. Sometimes an adverb of manner is placed before a verb + object to add emphasis. Example: Mary strongly said that she had not broken the window.

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Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 1 )

Name:_______________(___) Complete the table below. 1%@ Adjectives Adverbs 1. angry ( ) 2. bad ( ) 3. beautiful ( ) 4. brave ( ) 5. bright ( ) 6. busy ( ) 7. careful ( ) 8. careless ( ) 9. clear ( ) 10. correct ( ) 11. dangerous ( ) 12. deep ( ) 13. dirty ( ) 14. early ( ) 15. easy ( ) 16. fast ( ) 17. gentle ( ) 18. good ( ) 19. greedy ( ) 20. happy ( ) 21. heavy ( ) Class:_____ Date:____________

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Adjectives 22. hungry ( ) 23. last ( ) 24. late ( ) 25. lazy ( ) 26. ( ) 27. ( ) 28. ( ) 29. ( ) 30. ( ) 31. ( ) 32. ( ) 33. ( ) 34. ( ) 35. ( ) 36. ( ) 37. ( ) 38. ( ) 39. ( ) 40. ( ) 41. ( ) 42. ( )

Adverbs

loudly neatly nicely noisily prettily quickly quietly regularly simply slowly skillfully softly strongly suddenly sweetly weakly widely

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Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 2 )

Name:_______________(___) Class:_____ Fill in the blanks with adverbs. 1%@ Example : Their mother is getting angry. She is speaking to them angrily. 1. Johns character is very strong. He faces difficulties _________________________. 2. Susan is a very careful person. She does her homework _________________________. Helen is a happy girl. She smiles _________________________. Chow Yun Fat is a good actor. He acts very _________________________. Jack is a very punctual student. He goes to school _________________________. Date:____________

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B. Put the following words in the correct order. 3%@ Example: Kelly Chan / energetically / danced Kelly Chan danced energetically. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. They / softly / talked badly / The / boys / behaved works / Jackie / hard / extremely too / sings / He / quite / poorly walks / rather / Steven / slowly.

Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 3 )

Name:_______________(___) Class:_____ Date:____________

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Fill in the blanks with adverbs corresponding to the adjectives provided.1%@ Mimi is a very careful girl. She does everything very carefully (careful). Her bedroom is very neat because she put all her books, decorations, CDs, etc. very 1 __________________ (neat). It is also reflected in her studies. Her homework is never done 2 __________________ (poor). When her friends ask her why it can be completed so

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3 __________________ (good), she 4 __________________ (simple) says, It is not that difficult as you think. She loves cooking and eating very much, so she gains weight 5 _____________ (easy). Once, she ate up five bowls of noodle 6 __________________ (quick) in a meal. Although she is fat, she can dance 7 __________________ (beautiful) and run quite 8 __________ (fast). Mimi has a strong voice. She speaks 9 __________________ (noisy) while her younger sister speaks 10 __________________ (weak). B. Read the following passage. There is at least one mistake / a missing word on each numbered line. Correct it above it. (10%)

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Two years ago, Sally decided to learn how to swim. She started to get up earily in the morning. One day, when she had finished breakfast, she ran to the bus stop quick. Suddenly, she found that

3 she had forgotten to take her swimsuit, so she went back home immediate and missed the bus. After she arrived at the swimming pool, the coach knew that she was lately for practice and 4 shouted at her loud. She explained it to the coach and he did not accept it. Sally felt very unhappy 5 and could not pay attention to what the coach taught. She swam badly. 6 7 8 9 10 When she was at school, she could not do her schoolwork very careful. She made many mistakes. Miss Chan felt that she was sad that day and asked her why. She cried out and told her teacher about it. Miss Chan was sorry for her and gave her a card. She felt much well after that and thanked for her card.

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Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 1 )

Name:_______________(___) Complete the table below. 1%@ Adjectives Adverbs angrily 1. angry ( ) badly 2. bad ( ) 3. beautiful ( ) beautifully bravely 4. brave ( ) 5. bright ( ) brightly busily 6. busy ( ) 7. careful ( ) carefully 8. careless ( ) carelessly clearly 9. clear ( ) 10. correct ( ) correctly 11. dangerous () dangerously deeply 12. deep ( ) dirtily 13. dirty ( ) early 14. early ( ) easily 15. easy ( ) fast 16. fast ( ) 17. gentle ( ) gently well 18. good ( ) greedily 19. greedy ( ) 20. happy ( ) happily heavily 21. heavy ( ) Class:_____ Date:____________

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Adjectives 22. hungry ( ) 23. last ( ) 24. late ( ) 25. lazy ( ) 26. loud ( ) 27. neat ( ) 28. nice ( ) 29. noisy ( ) 30. pretty ( ) 31. quick ( ) 32. quiet ( ) 33. regular ( ) 34. simple ( ) 35. slow ( ) 36. skillful ( ) 37. soft ( ) 38. strong ( ) 39. sudden ( ) 40. sweet ( ) 41. weak ( ) 42. wide ( )

Adverbs hungrily last late lazily loudly neatly nicely noisily prettily quickly quietly regularly simply slowly skillfully softly strongly suddenly sweetly weakly widely

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Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 2 )

Name:_______________(___) Class:_____ Fill in the blanks with adverbs. 1%@ Example : Their mother is getting angry. She is speaking to them angrily. 1. Johns character is very strong. He faces difficulties strongly. 2. Susan is a very careful person. She does her homework carefully. 3. Helen is a happy girl. She smiles happily. 4. Chow Yun Fat is a good actor. He acts very well. 5. Jack is a very punctual student. He goes to school punctually. B. Put the following words in the correct order. 1%@ Example: Kelly Chan / energetically / danced Kelly Chan danced energetically. 1. They / softly / talked They talked softly. 2. badly / The / boys / behaved The boys behaved badly. 3. works / Jackie / hard / extremely Jackie works extremely hard. 4. too / sings / He / quite / poorly He sings quite poorly too. 5. walks / rather / Steven / slowly. Steven walks rather slowly. Date:____________

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Adverbs of Manner and Degree Worksheet ( 3 )

Name:_______________(___) Class:_____ Date:____________

Fill in the blanks with adverbs corresponding to the adjectives provided.1%@ Mimi is a very careful girl. She does everything very carefully (careful). Her bedroom is very neat because she put all her books, decorations, CDs, etc. very 1 neatly (neat). It is also reflected in her studies. Her homework is never done 2 poorly (poor). When her friends ask her why it can be completed so 3 well (good), she 4 simply

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(simple) says, It is not that difficult as you think. She loves cooking and eating very much, so she gains weight 5 easily (easy). Once, she ate up five bowls of noodle 6 quickly (quick) in a meal. Although she is fat, she can dance 7 beautifully (beautiful) and run quite 8 fast (fast). Mimi has a strong voice. She speaks 9 noisily (noisy) while her younger sister speaks 10 weakly (weak).

B. Read the following passage. There is at least one mistake / a missing word on each numbered line. Correct it above the line. (10%) early 1 Two years ago, Sally decided to learn how to swim. She started to get up earily in the morning. quickly 2 One day, when she had finished breakfast, she ran to the bus stop quick. Suddenly, she found immediately 3 that she had forgotten to take her swimsuit, so she went back home immediate and missed the bus. late 4 After she arrived at the swimming pool, the coach knew that she was lately for practice and loudly 5 shouted at her loud. She explained it to the coach and he did not accept it. Sally felt very so/rather 6 unhappy and could not pay attention to what the coach taught. She swam badly. carefully 7 When she was at school, she could not do her schoolwork very careful. She made many so/very 8 mistakes. Miss Chan felt that she was sad that day and asked her why. She cried out and told really/very 9 her teacher about it. Miss Chan was sorry for her and gave her a card. very 10 She felt much well after that and thanked for her card.