1. James is careful. He drives .
2. The girl is slow. She walks .
3. Her English is perfect. She speaks English .
4. Our teacher is angry. She shouts .
5. My neighbor is a loud speaker. He speaks .
6. He is a bad writer . He writes .
7. Jane is a nice guitar player. He plays the guitar .
8. He is a good painter . He paints .
9. She is a quiet girl. She does her job .
10.This exercise is easy. You can do it .
11.James is careful. He drives carefully .
12.The girl is slow. She walks slowly .
13.Her English is perfect. She speaks English perfectly .
14.Our teacher is angry. She shouts angrily .
15.My neighbor is a loud speaker. He speaks loudly .
16.He is a bad writer . He writes badly .
17.Jane is a nice guitar player. He plays the guitar nicely .
18.He is a good painter . He paints well .
19.She is a quiet girl. She does her job quietly .
20.This exercise is easy. You can do it easily .
happily
21. Joanne is happy. She smiles .
22. The boy is loud. He shouts .
23. Her English is fluent. She speaks English .
24. Our mum was angry. She spoke to us .
25. My neighbour is a careless driver. He drives .
26. The painter is awful. He paints .
27. Jim is a wonderful piano player. He plays the piano .
28. This girl is very quiet. She often sneaks out of the house .
29. She is a good dancer. She dances really .
30. This exercise is simple. You have to put one word in each space.
31. Joanne is happy. She smiles happily .
32. The boy is loud. He shouts loudly.
33. Her English is fluent. She speaks English fluently.
34. Our mum was angry. She spoke to us angrily .
35. My neighbour is a careless driver. He drives carelessly.
36. The painter is awful. He paints awfully.
37. Jim is a wonderful piano player. He plays the piano wonderfully.
38. This girl is very quiet. She often sneaks out of the house quietly.
39. She is a good dancer. She dances really well .
40. This exercise is simple. You simply have to put one word in each space.
41. He’s always in a rush. I don’t understand why he walks so ____________
(quick/quickly).
42. I prefer studying in the library. It’s always_______________ (quiet/quietly).
43. Michael __________ (happy/happily) took the assistant job. He had been looking
for a position all summer.
44. Marta dances _____________ (beautiful/beautifully). She’s been taking ballet
since she was five years old.
45. They speak French very ____________ (good/well). They lived in France for two
years.
46. My neighbor always plays ___________ (loud/loudly) music on the weekends.
It’s so annoying.
47. Please be __________ (careful/carefully) in the hallway. The walls have just
been painted.
48. Dan is very smart, but he is not a very___________ (good/well) student.
49. He reacted __________ (angry/angrily) to the news. I have never seen him so
upset.
50. We didn’t ______________ (complete/completely) understand the teacher’s
instructions. Most of us did not finish the assignment.
Answer Key: 1. quickly, 2. quiet, 3. happily, 4. beautifully, 5. well, 6. loud, 7. careful, 8.
good, 9. angrily, 10. completely
Some adverbs have the same form as the adjective: early, fast, hard, high, late, near, straight, & wrong
Well is the adverb that corresponds to the adjective good.
In most cases, an adverb is formed by adding -ly to an adjective
If the adjective ends in -y, replace the y with i and add –ly
If the adjective ends in -able, -ible, or -le, replace the -e with -y.
If the adjective ends in -ic, add -ally. Exception: public -> publicly
silent e is dropped in true, due, whole true → truly
y becomes i happy → happily
le after a consonant is dropped sensible → sensibly
after ll only add y full → fully
Adjectives ending in -ly: use ‘in a … way / manner’ or another adverb with similar
meaning
adjectiv
adverb
e
friendly in a friendly way
in a friendly
manner
likely probably
adverb
adjective adverb (meaning)
(meaning)
good well
difficult with
difficulty
public publicly
deep deep deeply (feeling)
(place)
direct direct directly (=soon)
hard hard hardly (=seldom)
high high highly (figurative)
(place)
late late lately (=recently)
most most mostly (=usually)
near near nearly (=almost)
pretty pretty prettily
(=rather)
short short shortly (=soon)
The following daily, enough, early, far, fast, hourly, little, long, low, monthly,
adjectives much, straight, weekly, yearly, …
are also used
as adverbs
(without
modification):
