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We add –ly to adjectives to  But there are some exceptions,  How to make adverbs:

make them adverbs.  “FAST-HARD-LATE-LITTLE”


have the same form as the  The words ending with
slow slowly adjectives.  -y changes –ily
quick quickly He drives fast. He is a fast driver. Happy happily
loud loudly He works hard. His work is hard.  -le changes –ly
 HARDLY and LATELY have Gentle gently
 She speaks loudly. different meanings. They are not  -ll changes -lly
 We walk slowly. adverbs. Careful carefully
 She moves quickly.  GOOD=WELL

A) Choose the correct answer.


1) My mother is a careful/carefully woman. She does all her work careful/carefully.

2) Our teachers are very helpfully/helpful. They always behave helpfully/helpful toward us.

3) Serkan is a healthy/healthily boy. He is very careful/carefully about his meals. He lives healthy/healthily.

4) The tourists speak very quick/quickly. I cannot understand their speeches complete/completely.

5) My father is a very fast/fastly driver . He drives fast/fastly. The police warned him serious/seriously.

6) Aslı shouted very loud/loudly and the teacher got angry/angrily. She felt bad/badly.

7) Ahmet is a very lazy/lazily student. He doesn’t do his homework and sleeps lazy/lazily.

8) My father was very tired yesterday. Because he worked hard/hardly.

B) Turn given adjectives into adverbs. C) Fill in the blanks with the adverbs given
1) Happy happily 1) Sema didn’t listen to the teacher. So the teacher
2) Dangerous dangerously warned her seriously___________.
3) Sad sadly 2) I went to school happily___________. Because I
4) Hard hard
missed the school.
5) Deep deeply
3) I play football _regularly__________. Every Sunday
6) Excited excitedly
7) Eager eagerly we play football.
8) Loud loudly 4) Kemal is a kind student. He behaves
9) Quiet quietly gently___________.
10) Tender tenderly 5) Ahmet got up _late__________ this morning and he
11) Gentle gently missed the bus. Now, he is angry
12) Nervous nervously 6) He is a rude man. He hurts people
13) Good well easilyeasily___________.
14) Correct correctly
15) Complete completely

D) Fill in the blanks with the words given.

1) I studied hard _________ for my math exam yesterday night.But I couldn’t pass it.
2) My brother waited for the bus _patiently________ but unfortunately_________ it
happily
didn’t come.
3) Mert plays football well He is a _good________ player.
hard
4) We had a great_________ party last night. Everybody left happily_________. heavily
5) My father came home _nervously_____. He had a bad_________ day.
6) Mehmet told the story slowly_. He never speaks quickly_________.
slowly nervously
7) We drove to work carefully_. It snowed yesterday heavily_________.
8) I’m not a _quick______ learner. I learn new topics slowly___________.
well slowly quick great quickly

patiently unfortunately bad good carefully

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