Choose the correct form (adjective or adverb).

1. John held the plate _________________. (careful / carefully)

2. Julia is a _________________ person. (careful / carefully)
3. I ran _________________ to the station. (quick / quickly)
4. The journey was _________________. (quick / quickly)
5. You look _________________. Didn’t you sleep well? (tired / tiredly)
6. The baby rubbed her eyes _________________. (tired / tiredly)
7. She sang _________________. (happy / happily)
8. You sound _________________. (happy / happily)
9. I speak English _________________. (well / good)
10. Her English is _________________. (well / good)
11. She cooks _________________. (terrible / terribly)
12. He is a _________________ cook. (terrible / terribly)
13. The music was _________________. (beautiful / beautifully)
14. She plays the piano _________________. (beautiful / beautifully)
15. That was a _________________ answer. (clever / cleverly)
16. She answered _________________. (clever / cleverly)
17. Your flat seems _________________ today. (tidy / tidily)
18. He put the dishes away _________________. (tidy / tidily)
19. He spoke _________________. (warm / warmly)
20. She is a very _________________ person. (warm / warmly)
21. If anything goes _________________ , someone must be blamed. (wrong/ wrongly)
22. The parliament was _________________ elected. (free/ freely)
23. You shouldn’t go up that ladder. It’s not _________________. (safe/ safely)
24. Coffee in the morning smells _________________. (fantastic/ fantastically)
25. The western part of the US was colonized _________________ by the Spanish. (main/
mainly)
26. The sun was shining _________________ in the sky. (bright/ brightly)
27. She likes to wear _________________ clothes when she goes out. (colorful/ colorfully)
28. My son was _________________ disappointed because he didn’t get the job. (bitter/
bitterly)
29. Don’t be so _________________ (noisy/ noisily) when you leave and close the door
_________________, please (quiet/ quietly)
30. The plane was able to land _________________ on the main runway. (safe/ safely)
31. Many students feel _________________ before an exam. (nervous/ nervously)
32. The building was _________________ destroyed by the fire. (total/ totally)
33. She _________________ recovered from her injuries. (slow/ slowly)
34. She looked at us _________________ when she saw that the glass had been broken.
(angry/ angrily)
35. I haven’t seen him _________________. Do you know where he’s been (late/ lately).
36. Since the death of his wife he has _________________ gone out anymore. (hard/ hardly)
37. He was _________________ to have a second pair of shoes with him. (fortunate/
fortunately)
38. _________________, he was able to climb down the roof on his own without any help.
(lucky/ luckily)
39. You are a _________________ man having a wife like Rose. (lucky/ luckily)
40. There’s no _________________ (easy/ easily) way to do this. It’s _________________
work. (hard/ hardly)
41. Let’s take a break. We have been working ____________ ____________. (hard, hardly/
late/ lately)
42. We have just finished wiping the floors ____________ (clean/ cleanly).
43. The opera singer sang her part ________________. (beautiful/ beautifully)
44. I ______________ had a car accident on my way back home from work. (near/ nearly)
45. There’s nothing wrong with your soup. It looks ____________ to me (fine/ finely).
46. The girl was _______________ dressed for her birthday party. (pretty/ prettily)
47. Mom was very ____________(calm/ calmly) after she had heard the ____________
news. (good/ well)
48. She was a ____________ (good/ well) -trained athlete who performed ____________
(remarkable/ remarkably____________ (good/ well) in competitions.
49. The wild animal came ____________ (close/ closely) to us, so ____________, we were
afraid. (natural/ naturally)
50. Dollars are ___________ accepted in many countries of the world. (wide/ widely)
51. I looked at him ____________ when he came in. (angry/ angrily)
52. My dad wore an ____________ jacket for the celebration. (elegant/ elegantly)
53. They were ____________ (professional/ professionally) actors who performed in a
____________ professional way. (high/ highly)
54. We ____________ (hard/ hardly) noticed the storm. All of a sudden, objects were flying
around ____________ through the air. (wild/ wildly)
55. Not ________________, they lost their last match. (surprising/ surprisingly)
56. My parents were ____________ annoyed about my test marks. (real/ really)
57. They were ____________ (perfect/ perfectly) ____________ (happy/ happily) with the
Christmas presents they received.
58. Your suggestion sounds ____________. Let’s go! (great/ greatly)
59. There is no ____________ flight between Chicago and New Yok at the moment. (direct/
directly)
60. The manager spoke to us in an _______________ harsh tone. (unusual/ unusually)
61. We very ________________ missed the chance of meeting the famous film star. (near/
nearly)
62. They were so __________________ to meet his new girlfriend. (happy/ happily)
63. He doesn’t look old but rather __________________ for his age. (young/ youngly)
64. The ship was able to reach the harbour __________________ (safe/ safely)
65. The __________________ (polite/ politely) boy __________________ gave me his hand
(polite/ politely)
66. Dad looked at me __________________ (angry/ angrily) because I had broken the
window.
67. It was getting __________________ (late/ lately) and the sky was turning
__________________. (dark/ darkly)
68. It feels __________________ (strange/ strangely) to know that elephants are roaming
__________________ (free/ freely) outside our safari lodge.
69. She smiled at me __________________. (sweet/ sweetly)
70. There haven’t been any reality shows on TV __________________. (late/ lately)
71. My girlfriend complained __________________ (bitter/ bitterly) about the
__________________ way you treated her sister. (nasty/ nastily)
72. He’s a very __________________ friend of ours. (good/ well)
73. I __________________ ever meet him nowadays. (hard/ hardly)
74. She had all her flowers __________________ arranged in the flower bed. (neat/ neatly)
75. She dances rather __________________. (good/ well)
76. He played against the world’s number one very __________________. (clever/ cleverly)
77. I’m sorry I’m late. I tried to get here as __________________ as I could. (fast/ fastly)
78. Jack made a __________________ mistake and drove his car into the tree. (terrible/
terribly)
79. We treated him __________________. (friendly/ friendlily)
80. That smells __________________. – What are you cooking, Mom? (great/ greatly)
81. He plays football pretty ___________ (good/ well), but he’s not a ____________ player.
(fair/ fairly)
82. The young girl was _______________ dressed. (pretty/ prettily)
83. I always feel _______________ when I lose a match. (terrible/ terribly)
84. We _______________ missed our train. (near/ nearly)
85. I was _______________ upset about the problems I had experienced (awful/ awfully)
86. Dad is _______________ improving after his undergoing heart surgery. (slow/ slowly)
87. The prisoner was treated _______________ by the guards. (bad/ badly)
88. Tom _______________ (hard/ hardly) tries to improve his English. He’s very
_______________ about it. (lazy/ lazily)
89. The sweater feels _______________ (nice/ nicely) and _______________ (soft/ softly).
90. The government proposals were _______________ disputed. (high/ highly)
91. Some shops in town close every _______________. (late/ lately)
92. The bullet _______________ missed the man’s head. (narrow/ narrowly)
93. Boys often behave ___________________ (silly/ sillily).
94. The driver had made a _______________ turn before he crashed into a tree. (sharp/
sharply)
95. The girl is a _______________ dancer. (graceful/ gracefully)
96. I think the man over there is _______________ old. (fair/ fairly)
97. _______________, we were at home when the window broke. (lucky/ luckily)
98. She fell in love _______________ when she set her eyes on the young man. (mad/
madly)
99. The hurricane was _______________ to watch. (terrible/ terribly)
100. The eagle rose _______________ into the blue sky. (majestic/ majestically)
101. Anne looked around the room _______________. (nervous/ nervously)
102. He told us that it could be done _______________ (easy/ easily).
103. It was _______________ (late/ lately) when the famous actor _______________ arrived.
(final/ finally)
104. It was a _______________ (long/ longly) walk up the _______________ hill. (steep/
steeply)
105. The lasagne tastes _______________. Where did you get the recipe? (great/ greatly)
106. He looked at me __________________ when I interrupted him. (angry/ angrily)
107. Marty and Judith are __________________ married. (happy/ happily)
108. I lost the game because I had been playing __________________. It was even
____________ than last season’s game. (bad/ badly, bad/ badly)
109. The boss is always __________________ -informed. There’s not much you can hide
from him. (good/ well)
110. My French isn’t very __________________ (good/ well), but I can understand him
__________________ (perfect/ perfectly) if he speaks __________________. (slow/
slowly)
111. The film was __________________. I haven’t seen one as __________________ as that
before. (terrible/ terribly, bad/ badly)
112. Sue was __________________ upset about losing her job. (terrible/ terribly)
113. Expensive hotels are often __________________ than __________________ ones.
(comfortable/ comfortably, cheap/ cheaply).
114. They discussed __________________ technical matters in the meeting. (high/ highly)
115. Do you want to pay __________________? (separate/ separately)
116. They have to work __________________ for a living, but if you look at other people,
they __________________ work at all. (hard/ hardly, hard/ hardly)
117. The children behaved ______________, so they were allowed to go to the party. (good/
well)
118. It’s the _____________________ painting in the whole exhibition (valuable, valuably)
119. I __________________ drove my car into the river. It was pretty __________________.
(near/ nearly, close/ closely)
120. The cook prepared an __________________ lunch for the guests. (excellent/ excellently)
121. She had __________________ money to spend than last year (little/ littlely).
122. __________________, Paris is quite a __________________ city. (obvious/ obviously,
love/ lovely)
123. Jerry is the __________________ student in my whole class. (bad/ badly)
124. The man became __________________ when the guard asked him to leave. (violent/
violently)
125. The exam was __________________ easy. (surprising/ surprisingly).