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:

  • It rained heavily. (how it rained)
  • He always replies quickly. (how he replies)

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

  • He drives carefully.
  • She plays the guitar well.

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

  • It rained quite heavily.
  • He drives quite carefully.
  • She plays the guitar really well.

🔄 Adjectives vs. Adverbs of Manner

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

  • Robert plays the guitar well. (adverb: how he plays)
  • Robert is a good guitar player. (adjective: describing Robert)
  • Sara eats slowly. vs. Sara 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.

Exercises:
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Adverbs of manner (slowly) or
adjectives (slow)?

Choose adjectives or adverbs of manner to complete the follwing 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 .

Adverbs of manner (slowly)
or adjectives (slow)?

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.

Adverbs of manner (slowly) or
adjectives (slow)?

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.