Some adverbs have the same from as the adjective: FAST- He is a fast runner – He runs very fast HARD- It was a hard day – She worked very hard.. LATE- He is always late- The train arrive[r]
(1)Adverbs are usually formed by adding –ly to an adjective, although there are sometimes some changes in spelling bad badly slow slowly quick quickly When an adjective ends in –ly you can´t form the adverb adding –ly You have to use a prepositional phrase instead He smiled at me in a friendly way She did it in the right way “-le” changes to “-ly” “-y” changes to “-ily” “-ic” changes to “-ically” “-ue” changes to “-uly” “-ll” changes to “-lly” gentle gently easy easily automatic automatically true truly full fully Some adverbs have the same from as the adjective: FAST- He is a fast runner – He runs very fast HARD- It was a hard day – She worked very hard LATE- He is always late- The train arrived late The adverb of the adjective “good” is “well” She is a good singer –She sings well “Hardly” and “lately” are not adverbs of manner They have a different meaning from hard and late -She can hardly see the street – Has it rained lately? With some verbs like “be”, “become”, “feel”, “get”, “look” and “seem” you must use an adjective instead of an adverb She looked very happy They felt really tired She got very angry when she found out what had happened during her absence Choose the right word in brackets to complete the following sentences Then match them with the pictures Bob trained very _ at the gym yesterday (hard / hardly) It´s the second time he has been for school this week (late / lately) Harry always brushes his teeth (quick / quickly) Henry memorises his lessons _ He´s a learner (slow / slowly) Tom felt very _ while he was waiting to see the director (nervous / nervously) Jimmy listened to the teacher _ (attentive / attentively) John is a naughty boy He often behaves _ at school (bad / badly) Lydia had to take her umbrella as it was raining _ (heavy / heavily) The wind blew so yesterday that we had to stay in (strong / strongly) 10 The sun shone _ yesterday so Tom was at the beach all day (bright / brightly) 11 Lara likes tennis but she doesn´t play very _ (good / well) 12 She had to drive _ as the road was icy ( careful / carefully) 13 It wasn’t an _ test It took Paul a long time to finish it (easy / easily) 14 The girls sang at the party (beautiful / beautifully) 15 Ben ran when he saw the snake Fortunately he is a runner (quick / quickly) 16 His mobile rang _ in the middle of his class ( loud / loudly) 17 The lorry driver shouted at Paul _ (angry / angrily) 18 The little boy kissed his mother (tender / tenderly) (2)