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Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of manner used to say how someone does something, or how something happens.
Example: à grasp the unfolded corners and fold them in diagonally.
à Stir the tea slowly
The adverbs manner has characteristics:
Sometimes there is a small change in spelling:
le changes to –ly: comfortable à comfortably
y changes to –ily: easy à easily
ic changes to –ically: automatic à automatically
ue changes to –uly: true à truly
Il changes to –lly: full à fully
Adverbs of manner sometimes also express degree. That is irregular adverbs of manner:
Adjective: good fast
hard late early
Adverb : well fast
hard late early
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs of manner:
Example: friendly silly
lively elderly
lonely lovely
He spoke angrily.
They live just here.
We will go in a few minutes.
If the verb has an object or complement we put the adverbial after the object or
complement:
If we want to emphasise an adverb of manner, we can put it in front of the main verb: