ADVERBS – INTRODUCTORY TASKS

TASK 1
Classify the following adverbs.
round today usually almost back upstairs
well there here just completely badly
nearly there hard ahead sometimes slowly
now always away still already then
rather quite carefully yet slightly fast
fairly often totally never over fully

Type Examples

Manner (sposobu) carefully, badly, slowly, fast, hard, well

Time (czasu) now, today, then, just, still, yet, already

Frequency (częstotliwości) always, often, usually, never, sometimes

Degree (stopnia) rather, quite, nearly, fairly, slightly, completely, totally, fully, almost

Place (miejsca) there, here, upstairs, away, back, over there, ahead, round

TASK 2
Choose the correct form of an adverb.
1. This view is not going to be wide/widely accepted.
2. He travelled wide/widely as a young boy.
3. Why did you leave the door wide/widely open?
4. We’re leaving at 6 o’clock sharp/sharply.
5. The mother looked sharp/sharply at her child.
6. Don’t go deep/deeply into the forest.
7. He deep/deeply regretted saying that.
8. These birds can fly very high/highly.
9. The concert started late/lately.
10. I think I understood this wrong/wrongly.
11. They live close/closely to each other.
12. I need to analyse it close/closely.
13. These two are not close/closely related.
14. You’ll find the place easy/easily.
15. You can stay here free/freely of charge.
16. Can I speak free/freely?
17. He hit me really hard/hardly.
18. Don’t shout too loud/loudly.
19. The baby is sleeping sound/soundly.
20. He was soon sound/soundly asleep.

TASK 3
Answer the questions:
What is the reason to place the highlighted adverb at the beginning of the following sentence:
Every day they cycle to school.?
Can you place the adverb ‘on Monday’ in the middle of an affirmative sentence?
What type of adverbs are placed at the end of a sentence?
What does it mean when an adverb with a comma is placed at the beginning of a sentence?
TASK 4
Make common collocations formed out of an adverb + an adjective.
empty hurt guarded normal abandoned Rich
wrecked new self-conscious hostile popular expensive

Adverb + adjective
bitterly hostile
completely empty
deeply hurt
entirely new
heavily guarded
hideously expensive
highly popular
painfully self-conscious
perfectly normal
seriously rich
totally abandoned
utterly wrecked