Name: ________Ingrid Cordero______________________________

Adverbs – Exercises
1. Write the adjectives and adverbs.

Quick Quickly
Nice Nicely
Fast Fast
Good Well
Dangerous Dangerously
Beautiful Beautifully
Hard Hard
Safe Safely
Occasional Occasionally
Happy Happily
Sudden Suddenly
Careful Carefully
Angry Angrily
Unfortunate Unfortunately

2. Emily wrote a letter to a friend. Complete the letter. Use the correct form of the words in
parentheses, adjectives or adverbs.

Dear Lauren,
I’m totally 1(total) exhausted! James and I finished moving into our new apartment today. It
was a lot of __hard__________ 2(hard) work, but everything worked out ___well______ 3(good).
The apartment looks ____nice__________ 4(nice). It’s ___extremely______ 5(extreme)
_________comfortable_______ 6(comfortable). The only problem is with the heat. I always feel
_____cold___ 7(cold). We’ll have to speak to the landlord about it. He seems ______pretty________
8(pretty) ______friendly________ 9(friend).

People tell me that the neighborhood is very _____safe_______ 10(safe). That’s

_really______________ 11(real) ___important_______ 12(important) because I get home _____late_____ 13(late)
from work. I hate it when the streets are _____completely_________ 14(complete) _____empty________
15(empty) like they were in our old neighborhood. Shopping is _____good___________ 16(good), too. We

can get to all the stores very ___easy_________ 17(easy). The bus stop is __near________ 18(near) the
apartment, and the buses run ___frequently_______ 19(frequent).
Why don’t you come for a visit? It would be ___wonderful________ 20(wonderful) to see you. I
haven’t seen you since our wedding. Please write.
Love,
Emily

3. Put in the correct word.

Example: Two people were seriously injured in the accident. (serious / seriously)

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 The driver of the car had serious injuries. (serious / seriously)

a. I think you behaved very _selfisly______. (selfish / selfishly)

b. Tanya is __terribly____ upset about losing her job. (terrible / terribly)
c. There was a ___sudden_____ change in the weather. (sudden / suddenly)
d. Everybody at the carnival was __colorfully______ dressed. (colorful / colorfully)
e. Linda usually wears __colorful______ clothes. (colorful / colorfully)
f. Liz fell and hurt herself really ___badly____. (bad / badly)
g. Joe says he didn’t do well at school because he was _badly____ taught. (bad / badly)
h. Don’t go up that ladder. It doesn’t look __safe_____. (safe / safely)

4. Complete each sentence using a word from the box. Sometimes you need the adjective (careful etc.)
and sometimes the adverb (carefully etc.)

Careful(ly) Complete(ly) Continuous(ly) Financial(ly) Fluent(ly)

Happy (happily) Nervous(ly) Perfect(ly) Quick(ly) Special(ly)

Example: Our holiday was too short. The time passed very quickly.

a. Steve doesn’t take risks when he’s driving. He’s always ___careful_____.
b. Sue works _continuously____. She never seems to stop.
c. Rachel and Patrick are very __happily____ married.
d. Maria’s English is very __fluent___although she makes quite a lot of mistakes.
e. I cooked this meal ___specially____ for you, so I hope you like it.
f. Everything was very quiet. There was __complete______ silence.
g. I tried on the shoes and they fitted me __perfectly_____.
h. Do you usually feel ___nervous_____ before exams?
i. I’d like to buy a car, but it’s _financially_____ impossible for me at the moment.

5. Choose two words (one from each box) to complete each sentence.

chea
absolutely badly completely changed p damaged
reasonably seriously slightly enormous ill long
unnecessaril
y unusually   planned quiet  

Example: I thought the restaurant would be expensive, but it was reasonably cheap.

a. Will’s mother is __seriosly___ ill_____ in hospital.

b. What a big house! It’s __absolutely__ ___enormous____.
c. It wasn’t a serious accident. The car was only ___ slightly damaged.___.
d. The children are normally very lively, but they’re ___ unusually quiet _____ today.
e. When I returned home after 20 years, everything had ____ completely changed.___________.
f. The movie was ___unnecessarily long_____. It could have been much shorter.

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 g. A lot went wrong during out holiday because it was __badly planned___________.

6. Put in good or well.

Example: I play tennis but I’m not very good.

a. Your exam results were very ___good__.

b. You did ___well_ in your exams.
c. The weather was ___good____ while we were away.
d. I didn’t sleep ___well___ last night.
e. Lucy speaks German ______well_____. She’s good______ at languages.
f. Our new business isn’t doing very ____well_____ at the moment.
g. I like your hat. It looks ___good_____ on you.
h. I’ve met her a few times, but I don’t know her ______well____.

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