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Adverbs of manner
![]() ![]() | Adverbs of manner. A few examples : |
Sally | walks | slowly | Alfred | plays | the guitar | beautifully | |||
My grandfather | speaks | softly | She | read | the letter | quickly |
How does Sally walk? She walks slowly. | | | How does Alfred play the guitar? He plays the guitar beautifully. | |
How does my grandfather speak? He speaks softly. | How did she read the letter? She read it quickly. |
How to build them |
A- Add the suffix: -ly |
Adjective | Adverb | Examples |
loud | loudly | The dog barks loudly. |
careful | carefully | My sister drives carefully. |
slow | slowly | The tortoise moves slowly. |
quick | quickly | He agreed to phone him quickly. |
fluent | fluently | They speak English fluently. |
skillful | skillfully | Cristiano plays football skillfully. |
serious | seriously | This boy is seriously mad. |
B- When the adjective ends in -y, use -ily |
Adjectives | Adverbs | Examples |
angry | angrily | Linda slammed the door angrily. |
happy | happily | My little brother always goes to school happily. |
easy | easily | Catherine answered all the questions easily. |
crazy | crazily | The baby was crying crazily. |
C- Adjectives ending in -le : remove the "e" |
Adjectives | Adverbs | Examples |
gentle | gently | The mother holds the baby gently. |
terrible | terribly | The new singer sang terribly. |
horrible | horribly | The two young men behaved horribly. |
D- Irregular |
Adjectives | Adverbs | Examples |
hard | hard | He kicked him very hard. |
good | well | Peter and Ann play the guitar very well. |
fast | fast | James can drive very fast. |
late | late | I often sleep late. |
straight | straight | Children must go straight home. |
high | high | The balloon flew high in the sky. |
Where to put them: |
At the beginning of the sentence | In the middle of the sentence | At the end of the sentence |
Slowly, the students left the classroom. | The football player was seriously injured. | My father looked at me angrily. |
Angrily, the headmaster slammed the door. | They are laughing loudly at the joke. | The train arrived late. |
Generously, the lady gave the poor man some money. | Ann was smiling happily at her friends. | I miss my colleagues terribly. |
Fortunately, nobody was killed during the battle. | I am trying hard to fix the problem. | She passed the English test easily. |
Please note: |
1- A few adverbs can be put before the verb. |
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2- badly, hard, well, fast are always after the verb. |
This boy walks fast. Correct |
3-You can't put an adverb between a verb and an object. They read carefully the notice. Wrong |
They carefully read the notice. Correct |They read the notice carefully. Correct |
Exercise : Choose the correct adverb.

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