Explanation
Exercises

✏️ Adjectives & Adverbs of Manner

🔴 Adjectives

  • careful
  • quick
  • slow
  • bad
  • happy
  • easy
  • noisy
  • reasonable
  • incontrollable
  • good
  • hard
  • fast
  • early
  • late
  • right
  • wrong

🔵 Adverbs of Manner

  • carefully
  • quickly
  • slowly
  • badly
  • happily
  • easily
  • noisily
  • reasonably
  • incontrollably
  • well
  • hard
  • fast
  • early
  • late
  • right
  • wrong

🟢 Spelling Changes

  • General rule: add -ly (quick → quickly).
  • Adjectives ending in -y: change y to i, add -ly (happy → happily).
  • Adjectives ending in -le: replace -le with -ly (gentle → gently).
  • Irregular adverb: good → well.
  • Same form: hard, fast, early, late, right, wrong (no change).

📚 Adverbs of Manner – Use & Position

We use adverbs of manner after a verb to describe how something happens or how we do something:

  • The baby slept quietly. (how the baby slept)
  • She speaks clearly. (how she speaks)

Position: after the verb, or after verb + object if there is an object:

  • He walks carefully on the ice.
  • She writes her name slowly.

With modifiers: very, really, quite can go before the adverb:

  • Please listen very carefully.
  • He reads quite slowly.
  • She sings really well.

🔄 Adjectives vs. Adverbs of Manner

Adjectives describe nouns (before a noun or after be). Adverbs describe verbs (after verb or verb+object).

  • Anna writes well. (adverb: how she writes)
  • Anna has good handwriting. (adjective: describing handwriting)
  • Tom eats slowly. vs. Tom is a slow eater.

Note: Some words end in -ly but are adjectives, not adverbs: friendly, lovely, silly. They cannot be turned into adverbs of manner.

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Adjectives & Adverbs of Manner

Choose adjectives or adverbs of manner to complete the following sentences.
1
The boy is a runner. He runs very .
2
The cat moves because it is a animal.
3
The music is . Please play it .
4
She sings because she is a singer.
5
The car is . It stops .
6
The dog is . It barks .
7
He swims because he is a swimmer.
8
The teacher is . She speaks .
9
The rain falls because it is rain.
10
The baby is . He cries .

Adjectives & Adverbs of Manner

Complete the follwing sentences with the correct adjectives or adverbs of manner.
1
The music is too ____ to enjoy.
A.
B.
C.
2
Please speak ____ so everyone can understand you.
A.
B.
C.
3
He drives ____ and never has an accident.
A.
B.
C.
4
The cat moves ____ when it hunts.
A.
B.
C.
5
John is a ____ runner and wins every race.
A.
B.
C.
6
John runs ____ in the morning.
A.
B.
C.
7
The water flows ____ down the stream.
A.
B.
C.
8
That was a ____ solution to our problem.
A.
B.
C.
9
Mary sings ____ in the choir.
A.
B.
C.
10
Walter is a ____ worker who never makes mistakes.
A.
B.
C.

Adjectives & Adverbs of Manner

Complete the sentences using adjectives or adverbs. Use the adjectives in the list and the adverbs formed from those adjectives.
loud / loudly careful / carefully rude / rudely patient / patiently slow / slowly neat / neatly
1
Please drive on this icy road.
2
The speaker talked too during the concert.
3
He answered my question very .
4
The speaker talked too — we’re running out of paper.
5
She arranges her desk every morning
6
The customer waited for the manager to arrive.
7
His remarks sounded to everyone in the room.
8
She keeps her office files extremely .
9
You must be when handling this fragile vase.
10
The kitten crawls across the living room floor.