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Adverb Collocations Advanced

This document discusses adverb collocations and provides examples of verbs and adjectives commonly paired with certain adverbs. It then gives exercises to complete sentences using adverbs from a list and to match verbs with adverbs. Finally, it examines some adverbs that have two forms and how the meaning may change depending on the form used.

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Adverb Collocations Advanced

This document discusses adverb collocations and provides examples of verbs and adjectives commonly paired with certain adverbs. It then gives exercises to complete sentences using adverbs from a list and to match verbs with adverbs. Finally, it examines some adverbs that have two forms and how the meaning may change depending on the form used.

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Adverb collocations

Adverbs often go with certain verbs and adjectives. Look at the examples :
Verb + adverb
adverb + adjective
Hear about endlessly
deeply worried
Turning relentesly
utterly destroyed

1) Complete the sentences with adverb from the box


Severely deeply sorely interminably eagerly
virtually distinctly fatally conscientiously

desperately

highly

perfectly

1) I
need a holiday. I havent had a break for three years.
2) The return of the Shakespearean actor Donald Bennet to the London stage is
awaited
3) I work with a
motivated sales team. We all work hard.
4) It is
impossible to get away from mobile phones these days.
5)Bad weather has
affected the roads this weekend. Driving conditions are
treacherous.
6) The politiciansspeech seems to go on
but in fact it was only thirty
minutes.
7) I hate cold climates. I am
tempted to emigrate somwhere warm.
8) I
remember you telling me not to phone before 2 p.m.
9) Having worked
for the same firm for forty years, he was awarded a gold
watch.
10) In her anger she hit him. Later she
regretted this.
11) Two people escaped unhurt in the accident, but unfortunatelly the third passenger
was
injured and died on the way to hospital.
12) Alison made her views on the subject of politicians
clear. She
dislikes all of them.

II Match the verbs and adverbs. Make sentences using the adverb
collocations
A
Scream
Gaze
Love
Break something
Work
apologize

B
Passionately
Profusely
Longingly
Hysterically
Consciensiously
deliberately

Adverbs with two forms


Some adverbs have two forms, one with and one without LY. Compare these
examples:
Flying high
highly motivated
Doing fine
finely-chopped onions
1) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adverb. In which examples
does the meaning alter significantly
HARD/HARDLY
1) We all work extremely---------------------2) Some countries can----------------feed their own population
EASY/EASILY
1) Manchester won the match-------------2) Relax! Take it--------------------LATE/LATELY
1) I hate it when people arrive---------------2) What have you been up to--------------------SURE/SURELY
1) Can you lend me some money?
---------------------------- .
2) --------------------you can see that your plan just wouldnt work.
WRONG/WRONGLY
1) He was--------------------accused of being a spy.
2) At first everything was great, but then it all went--------------- .
FREE/FREELY
1) He talked -----------------about his criminal past.
2) The prisoner walked----------------after twenty years in jail.
MOST/MOSTLY
1) What do you like-----------------about me?
2) She worked whenever she could-----------------------in restaurants.
WIDE/WIDELY
1) She has travelled-----------------in Europe and Asia.
2)When I got home, the door was------------open.

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