Adverb-Adjective

1) be, get, grow, become … hard-hardly, near-nearly, close-closely, late-

2) feel, smell, taste lately,
3) look, seem (= turn out, prove, appear, pretty- prettily, deep-deeply, high-highly,
be considered), sound wide-widely …
1. The weather was becoming … (nasty/nastily).
2. The dish tasted … (delicious/deliciously), but I felt … (reluctant/reluctantly) to eat it.
3. It feels … (good/well) to have finished a piece of work.
4. He tasted the wine … (appreciating/ appreciatingly).
5. He always tastes new food … (eager/eagerly). – Oh, yes, I know he never seems … (weary/wearily) of
learning something new.
6. I feel … (certain/ certainly) that it will all turn out well.
7. The fruit smells … (awful/awfully), but eating it … (regular/regularly) proves … (healthy/healthily), at
least that’s what doctors say.
8. He smelled the substance … (cautious/ cautiously), because it looked very … (suspicious/ suspiciously)
to him.
9. Perelman … (brilliant/brilliantly) proved the idea of geometric topology that used to be considered …
(impregnable/ impregnably) for a century.
10. They are getting (awful/awfully) … (weary/wearily) of this silly war.
11. I will always feel … (grateful/ gratefully) to that elderly wise man.
12. I could … (clear/clearly) feel that a man was watching me very … (intense/ intensely).
13. At the sharp bend of the road the car rocked … (dangerous/ dangerously).
14. Sometimes it may turn out even … (dangerous/ dangerously) to jump to … (hasty/hastily) conclusions.
15. He tends to do things so … (hasty/hastily) that it is … (main/mainly) due to this that he fails to carry out
the work … (satisfactory/ satisfactorily).
16. He is … (dangerous/ dangerously) ill.
17. Although it is … (general/generally) … (possible/possibly) to contract malaria in England, … (statistical/
statistically), it is … (high/highly) … (unlike/unlikely).
18. He has … (hard/hardly) ever studied … (proper/properly).
19. I tripped over his bag and … (near/nearly) fell down.
20. He likes studying … (hard/hardly), but he has started feeling … (recent/recently) that he gets
(easy/easily) tired.
21. It was … (pretty/prettily) … (late/lately) when we decided that we’d better start out home.
22. He inspected my work … (close/closely).
23. The birds were flying … (high/highly) in the sky.
24. She seemed … (total/totally) … (indifferent/ indifferently) to what was going on around her.
25. The visit turned out to be … (political/ politically) very … (successful/ successfully).