Meeting 5, adverbs (assignment)

I. Complete the sentences with the best adverb.

slowly carefully Beautifully well loudly carelessly

easily excitedly Finally suddenly quickly quietly

1. Come here _____Quickly_______. You have to see this!

2. We knew that she had got the job when we saw her ____Excitedly_____ talking on
the phone.
3. He ______Carelessly________ put the vase on the table. It fell to the floor.
4. Sharon is throwing a party on Saturday. She ____Finally_______ finished her PhD.
5. Let's walk ______Slowly__________. I don't want to be the first one at the meeting.
6. Alex ______Easily_______ put up the bookshelves. It was too difficult for me to do
on my own.
7. Every thing happened so ______Quickly________. We had to move to California in
less than a month.
8. Why does he always have to talk so ____Loudly________. You can hear him in the
next room!
9. Although she speaks five languages, she did not do _____Well______ on the
translation exam.
10. I was so surprised. His new apartment was ______Beautifully_______ decorated.

II. Adverb or Adjective?

Complete the sentence using an adjective or adverb.

To make adverbs we often add -ly at the end of an adjective (words that describe a noun)

Example: beautiful (adjective) girl (noun)

beautiful + ly = beautifully (adverb)

1. He's always in a rush. I don't understand why he walks so ____Quickly________

(quick/quickly).
2. I prefer studying in the library. It's always_______Quiet________ (quiet/quietly).
3. Michael ____Happily______ (happy/happily) took the assistant job. He had been
looking for a position all summer.

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4. Marta dances ______Beautifully_______ (beautiful/beautifully). She's been taking
ballet since she was five years old.
5. They speak French very _____Well_______ (good/well). They lived in France for
two years.
6. My neighbor always plays _____Loud______ (loud/loudly) music on the weekends.
It's so annoying.
7. Please be ____Careful______ (careful/carefully) in the hallway. The walls have just
been painted.
8. Dan is very smart, but he is not a very_____Good______ (good/well) student.
9. He reacted ____Angrily______ (angry/angrily) to the news. I have never seen him so
upset.
10. We didn't ______Complete________ (complete/completely) understand the teacher's
instructions. Most of us did not finish the assignment.

III. Fill in the blanks using an appropriate adverb.

 Adverbs are words used to modify verbs.
 An adverb can also modify an adjective or another adverb.
 Adverbs usually indicate the time, manner or place of an action.
 Most words ending in –ly are adverbs.
 Most time words and place words are also adverbs.

Gracefully Bravely Somewhere extremely anxiously

Often Patiently Now carefully politely

1. She is a good-natured girl. She always behaves ………gracefully……………

2. The sun is setting ………Now………….
3. She dances ………politely…………….
4. The soldiers fought …………Bravely…………… and so the enemy fled.
5. Glassware should be handled ……Carefully………….
6. He must be ………Somewhere…………. around here.
7. The mother ………Patienly…………. waited for her daughter’s call.
8. We ………Often……….. go to the movies.

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9. It is ……Extremely………….. hot today.
10. He waited …………anxiously………… for his turn.

VI Read the following story. Circle every single-word adverb the author uses.
Remember that adverbs can modify a verb or adjective, or they can show comparison.
The Main Street Library closed for the day on the evening of December 8th. On that
night the security guard did not check between every shelf carefully. When he left, he
switched off the lights and eagerly bolted the door behind him. He did not know that Andy
Fiddel was sitting in the science section of the library.

When the library became dark, Andy slowly closed his science book. He headed
downstairs, but the security guard was completely gone by the time Andy reached the lobby.

Being only a young boy of eight years old, he didn’t quite know what to do. For a few
minutes he pounded furiously on the locked door and yelled loudly. But the cars outside
passed by quickly, and they couldn’t hear him. After a moment he became very bored with
this useless activity. Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind. He thought he could
happily spend hours here!

He easily found the light switch, then returned to his book. He finished it rapidly and
moved to the next book. He read about leeches, lizards, and other fantastically creepy
creatures. He carefully read Shakespeare’s beautifully written sonnets. He read excitedly,
then greedily, then hungrily. He read faster and faster and blinked less and less frequently.
His red eyes ached and his empty stomach complained loudly.

He was totally involved in a book about American history when he suddenly heard a
voice ring through the library. A friend of the library manager had noticed the lights in the
library. She phoned the manager promptly. The manager now called to Andy. Andy began
explaining that he was there accidentally. His parents arrived, running eagerly through the
door. He soon explained everything, and they finally went home.

***Good luck ***