ADVERBS OF MANNER

Meaning. An adverb of manner is a word that tells us in a sentence how something has happened.

Formation. Adverbs of manner are formed by adding –ly to the end of an adjective. But there are
some rules:

 Adjectives ending in –l add –ly

Careful  Carefully

 Adjectives ending in –y change to –ily

Luck  Luckily

 Adjectives ending in –-ble change to –bly

Responsible  Responsibly

Position. The position of the adverbs depends on the kind of adverb, but adverbs of manner are
usually placed after the main verb or after the object.

Examples: A) He dances well. (After the main verb)

He runs... rapidly, slowly, quickly.

She spoke... softly, loudly, aggressively.

I laughed loudly to attract her attention.

B) He plays the piano beautifully. (After the object)

He ate the strawberry cake greedily.

 Adverb formation. (Fill the gaps in the chart below.)
Exercise 1.

Adjectives Adverbs

1 ____________________ slowly
2 bad ____________________
3 angry ____________________
4 ____________________ carefully
5 ____________________ quietly
6 ____________________ calmly
7 mysterious ____________________
8 ____________________ perfectly
Instructions: Choose a word in brackets to fill the gaps correctly. Exercise 2.

1. Ana and Jenny dance the tango ________________________ (beautiful / beautifully).

2. She planned their trip to Greece very ________________________ (careful / carefully).
3. Jim painted the kitchen very ________________________ (bad / badly).
4. She sings very ________________________ (quiet / quietly).
5. Turn the stereo down. It's too ________________________ (loud / loudly).
6. He skipped ________________________ down the road to school (safe / safely).
7. He drives too ________________________. (slow / slowly)
8. Hermes knows the road ________________________ (good / well).
9. He plays the sax ________________________ (terrible / terribly).
10. We're camping tomorrow so we went to sleep _____________________ (happily / happy)
11. Any doesn't often work ________________________ (hard / hardly).
12. Sometimes our teacher arrived ________________________ for class (late / lately).

Instructions: Unscramble the sentences correctly.

Exercise 3.

1. carefully / clean / floor / the / You / must

2. new / The / secretary / slowly / works / very

3. the / test / has / studying / student / The / for / been / hard

4. news / knew / smiled / he / When / happily / the / he

5. do / can / these / brother / My / easily / exercises

6. specially / this / made / cake / I / you / for

7. play / played / beautifully / piano / She / school / the / in / the

8. dentist / waiting / children / were / The / the / for / impatiently

9. the / The / explained / teacher / angrily / lesson

10. difficult / solved / that / quickly / Peter / problem

11. street / previous / Susan / wrongly / turned / the / in

12. cowarly / policeman / behaved / a / in / The / way

13. rains / it / when / sister / My / sleeps / badly / little

14. enthusiastically / is / team / The / playing

15. his / husband / reading / book / My / is / bedroom / a / silently / in

16. station / train / The / left / the / hurriedly

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 Exercise 4.
Instructions: Choose an adjective from the box transform it to an adverb, then write it in the
sentences correctly.

quiet / slow / careful / fast / nervous / sad /lucky

1. Sheila can type ________________.

2. ________________, Susan has found her purse.

3. He looked ________________ inside the room.

4. She threw away the letter ________________.

5. The teacher explained the lesson ________________.

6. The boys cried ________________, because their pet passed away.

7. He spoke ________________, so I didn't understand him.