ADVERBS OF MANNER Meaning An adverb of manner is a word that tells us in a sentence how something has happened Formation Adverbs of manner are formed by adding –ly to the end of an adjective But there are some rules: • Adjectives ending in –l add –ly Careful Carefully • Adjectives ending in –y change to –ily Luck Luckily • Adjectives ending in –-ble change to –bly Responsible Responsibly Position The position of the adverbs depends on the kind of adverb, but adverbs of manner are usually placed after the main verb or after the object Examples: A) He dances well (After the main verb) He runs rapidly, slowly, quickly She spoke softly, loudly, aggressively I laughed loudly to attract her attention B) He plays the piano beautifully (After the object) He ate the strawberry cake greedily Exercise Adverb formation (Fill the gaps in the chart below.) Adjectives Adverbs slowly bad angry carefully quietly calmly mysterious perfectly Instructions: Choose a word in brackets to fill the gaps correctly Exercise Ana and Jenny dance the tango (beautiful / beautifully) She planned their trip to Greece very (careful / carefully) Jim painted the kitchen very (bad / badly) She sings very (quiet / quietly) Turn the stereo down It's too (loud / loudly) He skipped down the road to school (safe / safely) He drives too (slow / slowly) Hermes knows the road (good / well) He plays the sax (terrible / terribly) 10.We're camping tomorrow so we went to sleep _ (happily / happy) 11.Any doesn't often work (hard / hardly) 12.Sometimes our teacher arrived for class (late / lately) Instructions: Unscramble the sentences correctly carefully / clean / floor / the / You / must new / The / secretary / slowly / works / very the / test / has / studying / student / The / for / been / hard news / knew / smiled / he / When / happily / the / he / can / these / brother / My / easily / exercises specially / this / made / cake / I / you / for play / played / beautifully / piano / She / school / the / in / the dentist / waiting / children / were / The / the / for / impatiently Exercise 9 the / The / explained / teacher / angrily / lesson 10.difficult / solved / that / quickly / Peter / problem 11.street / previous / Susan / wrongly / turned / the / in 12.cowarly / policeman / behaved / a / in / The / way 13.rains / it / when / sister / My / sleeps / badly / little 14.enthusiastically / is / team / The / playing 15.his / husband / reading / book / My / is / bedroom / a / silently / in 16.station / train / The / left / the / hurriedly 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Exercise Instructions: Choose an adjective from the box transform it to an adverb, then write it in the sentences correctly quiet / slow / careful / fast / nervous / sad /lucky Sheila can type , Susan has found her purse He looked inside the room She threw away the letter The teacher explained the lesson The boys cried , because their pet passed away He spoke , so I didn't understand him