18304 adverbs of manner

An adverb of manner is a word that tells us in a sentence how something has happened.. Adverbs of manner are formed by adding –ly to the end of an adjective.. But there are some rules:

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.

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

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slowly

carefully quietly calmly

perfectly

ADVERBS OF MANNER

Exercise 1

Instructions: Choose a word in brackets to fill the gaps correctly.

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 2

Exercise 3

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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Instructions: Choose an adjective from the box transform it to an adverb, then write it in the sentences correctly

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

quiet / slow / careful / fast / nervous / sad /lucky

Exercise 4