THE ADVERBS The adverbs and the adjectives in English Adverbs tell us in what way someone does something.

Adverbs can modify verbs (here: drive), adjectives or other adverbs. Adjectives tell us something about a person or a thing. Adjectives can modify nouns (here: girl) or pronouns (here: she). adjective adverb Mandy is a careful girl. Mandy drives carefully. She is very careful. Mandy is a careful driver. This sentence is about Mandy, the driver, so use the adjective. Mandy drives carefully. This sentence is about her way of driving, so use the adverb. Form Adjective + -ly adjective adverb dangerous dangerously careful carefully nice nicely horrible horribly easy easily electronic electronically irregular forms good well fast fast hard hard If the adjective ends in -y, change -y to -i. Then add -ly. happy - happily but: shy - shyly If the adjective ends in -le, the adverb ends in -ly. Example: terrible - terribly If the adjective ends in -e, then add -ly. Example: safe - safely Tip: Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs. adjectives ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply There is no adverb for an adjective ending in -ly. Use of adverbs to modify verbs: The soccer team played badly last Saturday. to modify adjectives: It was an extemely bad match. to modify adverbs: The soccer team played extremely badly last Wednesday. to modify quantities: There are quite a lot of people here. to modify sentences: Unfortunately, the flight to Dallas had been cancelled. Types of adverbs 1) Adverbs of manner quickly kindly 2) Adverbs of degree very rather

3) Adverbs of frequency often sometimes 4) Adverbs of time now today 5) Adverbs of place here nowhere Conclusion: Use the adjective when you say something about the person itself. Use the adverb, when you want to say about the action.

1. seriously 2. selfishly 3. terribly 4. sudden 5. colourfully 6. badly 7. specially 8. safe 9. angrily 10. quickly 11. continuously 12. happily 13. fluent 14. financially 15. perfectly

Questions: 1) The driver of the car was __________________ injured. [ ]seriously [ ]0 [ ]serious 2) I think you behaved very __________________. [ ]selfish [ ]0 [ ]selfishly 3) Rose is __________________ upset about losing her job. [ ]terrible [ ]terribly [ ]0 4) There was a __________________ change in the weather. [ ]sudden [ ]0 [ ]suddenly 5) Everybody at the party was __________________ dressed. [ ]colourfully [ ]colourful [ ]0 6) She fell and hurt herself quite __________________. [ ]bad [ ]badly [ ]0 7) I cooked this meal __________________ for you, so I hope you like it. [ ]specially [ ]0 [ ]special 8) Don't go up that ladder. It doesn't look __________________. [ ]safe [ ]safely [ ]0 9) He looked at me __________________ when I interrupted him. [ ]angrily [ ]angry

[ ]0 10) Our holiday was too short. The time passed very __________________. [ ]quick [ ]0 [ ]quickly 11) Sue works __________________ . She never seems to stop. [ ]0 [ ]continuous [ ]continuously 12) Alice and Stan are very __________________ married. [ ]happily [ ]0 [ ]happy 13) Monica's English is very __________________ although she makes quite a lot of mistakes. [ ]0 [ ]fluent [ ]fluently 14) I would like to buy a car but it's __________________ impossible for me at the moment. [ ]financially [ ]financial [ ]0 15) I tried on the shoes and they fitted me __________________. [ ]0 [ ]perfect [ ]perfectly