Adverbs of manner.

1- Change the adjectives into adverbs.

1. Jake plays happily in the garden. (happy)
2. Mr Brown drives badly. (bad)
3. Pete runs fastly. (fast)
4. Jake does his homework slowly. (slow)
5. They ran out of the cinema quickly. (quick)
6. We went on holiday cheaply. (cheap)
7. We did the test well. (good)
8. The teacher shouted angrily. (angry)
9. The children worked busily. (busy)
10. Please work carefully. (careful)

2- Change the adjectives into adverbs.

Loud - loudly
Patient - patiently
Quiet - quietly
Early – early
Calm – calmly
Wrong – wrongly
Easy – easily
Beautiful – beautifully
Hard – hardly
Noisy - noisily
Adverbs of manner 1

Grammar reference: Adverbials of manner 1

Complete the sentences by changing the adjectives (in brackets) into adverbs
1.  We lost the football match 4–2 yesterday. I don't think we played 

badly  (bad) …

2. … but the other side played really 

w ell (good).

dangerously
3. You drive quite   (dangerous). I won't be surprised if you have an accident one

day!

angrily
4. 'You're late!' said Olga   (angry). 'Where have you been?'

quietly
5. The teacher spoke so  (quiet) that the class couldn't hear her.

carefully
6. This is a very important question. Please think  (careful) before you answer.

secretly
7. In 1483, King Richard III of England   (secret) killed his two young nephews.

greedily
8. The hungry cat looked   (greedy) at the chicken on the dinner table.

kindly
9. When I broke my leg, my friend Pam   (kind) offered to do the shopping for me.

beautifully
10. Paulo Coelho is one of my favourite novelists. I think he writes   (beautiful).

Grammar reference: Adverbials of manner 3

Use the words to complete the sentences.

1. Do you have to drive so fast? You're making me nervous.

2. Have you ever eaten frogs' legs? They taste like chicken

3. I lived in Cairo for more than ten years. I know it like the back of my hand
4. Is Marie angry with me? She didn't say hello in a very friendly way.

5. Let's get the later bus, at 10.45. We don't want to arrive at the airport too early

6. This milk doesn't smell very good. How long has it been in the fridge?

7. Why's he dancing in that silly way? Is he trying to be funny?

8. You can always tell what Rod is thinking. You can read him like a book

9. You look really bad! What time did you go to bed last night?

Adverbs of manner 2
Megan is a very serious athlete. She loves sports.

The girls had to finish their work quickly because the teacher told them to stop.

When he was a child, Tony spoke very quietly, and his friends couldn't understand
him.

Barbara swims faster than Anna because she has stronger arms.

Angelina is a lovely student. She is kind and pleasant.

I want my children to behave nicely to every person that they meet.

Do you think men drive more dangerous than women in your country?

When they heard the bad news, they were very sad

I wish that I could explain things as clearly as my teacher. I always understand

what he says in class.

My teacher said that Warren works the hardest in our class.

The group found their hotel easily after they bought the map of the city.

Do you think you speak English well? Yes, of course!