Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives and Adverbs


Introduction


Adjectives such as beautiful, nice, and red describe nouns. Adverbs such as quickly, badly, or warmly describe verbs. This page will explain the differences between them, and show you how to make adverbs from adjectives.
1. Using adjectives and adverbs



Adjective Adverb Example

beautiful		Ann is beautiful.
	beautifully	Ann sings beautifully.
warm		The room is warm.
	warmly	Joe smiles warmly.
slow		The car is slow.
	slowly	Ann drives slowly.

2. Making adverbs from adjectives



Adverbs are usually made from adjectives, by adding -LY. However, there are some exceptions. These are the rules:
Adjective ending in... How to make the adverb Examples

y	Change Y to I and add -LY	heavy - heavily happy - happily lazy - lazily
[anything else]	Just add -LY	warm - warmly nice - nicely loud - loudly

However, there are some important exceptions:
Adjective Adverb

good	well
late	late (“Lately” means recently. It is not the adverb from “late”.)
early	early
fast	fast
hard	hard (“Hardly” means not much. It is not the adverb from “hard”.)

When you are sure that you understand the lesson,

Adjective or Adverb?


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1. 
   Ann walks ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      heavy
      
   2. 
      ?
      heavily
      
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2. 
   Betty is ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      beautiful
      
   2. 
      ?
      beautifully
      
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3. 
   Jin speaks Chinese ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      fluent
      
   2. 
      ?
      fluently
      
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4. 
   David arrived ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      late
      
   2. 
      ?
      lately
      
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5. 
   Sue learned Japanese ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      quick
      
   2. 
      ?
      quickly
      
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6. 
   Sharon usually sings ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      sad
      
   2. 
      ?
      sadly
      
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7. 
   Bill understands Spanish ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      good
      
   2. 
      ?
      well
      
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8. 
   The women work ________.
   
   
   1. 
      ?
      hard
      
   2. 
      ?
      hardly
      
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9. 
   Mei Li dresses ________.
   
   
   1. 
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      beautiful
      
   2. 
      ?
      beautifully
      
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10. 
    I like to live in a ________ house.
    
    
    1. 
       ?
       clean
       
    2. 
       ?
       cleanly
       
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11. 
    The soup tastes ________.
    
    
    1. 
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       good
       
    2. 
       ?
       well
       
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12. 
    The orchestra sounds ________.
    
    
    1. 
       ?
       bad
       
    2. 
       ?
       badly
       
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13. 
    Eric likes to sing ________ songs.
    
    
    1. 
       ?
       sad
       
    2. 
       ?
       sadly
       
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14. 
    The eagle sees ________.
    
    
    1. 
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       good
       
    2. 
       ?
       well
       
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15. 
    Adriana ran ________.
    
    
    1. 
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       fast
       
    2. 
       ?
       fastly
       
    
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