ADJECTIVE+LY = ADVERB

quick-quickly slow-slowly heavy-heavily bad-badly soft-softly

beautiful-beautifully careful-carefully clear-clearly short-shortly

These words are both
adjectives and adverbs,so
ly at the
end of them.
hard fast early late
I am a good student.
I do my homework well.
Adverbs are words that tell Adjectives are words that
you how something happens or modify a noun.Adjectives
how someone does something. usually say how something
She opened the door slowly. is or what something is
The wind was blowing softly. like.
Our dog barked very loudly. He is an honest boy.
Helen went out happily. His car is really fast.
The singer sang beautifully. We have got a big house.

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ONE AND FILL IN FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH
THE BLANKS

He can carry a big piece of tree trunk by

himself. (strong-strongly)
2.I am a hardworking student.I always he exam and he got
-diligently)
3.I love my mother very much.She listens
match.
problem. (sympathetic-sympathetically)
better.
(fast-fastly) 6.You should buy this T-
5. as

studying at all. (lazy-lazily)

6.Yesterday there was a terrible rain that
LOOK AT THE ADVERBS BELOW AND FILL
-
IN THE BLANK WITH THEM
heavily)

highway this morning.Two men lost their

1.The weather was rainy,so he drove his
lives. (terrible-terribly)
8.
2.When Peter saw the dog he started
night.Our team lost the match. (bad-badly)
9.After the train crash some people
3.Hans has just heard some good news. He
-
seriously)
4.David fell off a tall tree,so he hurt his
10.
the conference.Everybody understood the
issue well. (clear-clearly)
ticed by anybody.
11.
and got the job. (correct-correctly)
teacher really loves him.
12.
(beautiful-beautifully)
about five hours.

they are very lovely. (slow-slowly)

14.When the teacher saw the puppy in the
classroom he shouted at the students
cried all day.
-angrily)

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