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Adverbs of Manner
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Noun Verb Adverb
Sally runs
Sally runs quickly
✽Adverbs of manner tell you more about verbs.
✽Making an adverb : Adjective + ly
Adjective Adverb
Adjective + ly beautiful beautifully
Adverb bad badly
quick quickly
Adjective Adverb
If the adjective easy easily
ends in y, noisy noisily
change y to i
and add ly
Adjective Adverb
Learn these hard hard
irregular forms. fast fast
good well
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Practice
Adverbs of Manner
Rewrite the adjectives as adverbs.
1 slow 4 happy
2 quiet 5 heavy
3 light
Fill in the blanks using an adverb.
1 The boy was eating the chocolate (happy).
2 Sally walks upstairs (slow).
3 Dad cuts the grass (quick).
4 Heather shouted (angry).
5 That test was (hard).
Circle the correct word to complete the sentence.
1 Sheep eat grass (slowly / fast).
2 Shawn did his homework (well / noisy).
3 My brother works (hard / good).
4 Lauren talks very (quick / fast).
5 The cat cried (loudly / busily).
Try More
Complete the sentences with words from the box.
happy we sweet tired lonely
1 Doris looked yesterday. She went on a field trip.
2 Does dark chocolate taste ?
3 Flora feels today.
She didn't go to bed until midnight.
4 Joanna played in the rain. She was very .
5 Shawn never feels . He's always with Flora.
Circle the correct adverb for each sentence.
1 Tigers can move (quickly / quick).
2 An eagle flies (fast / fastly).
3 Shawn thinks that his Mom's homemade pies smell (nicely / nice).
4 Apples are (tasty / taste).
5 Gordon thinks that vegetables taste (horrible / horribly).
Use the words in the box to complete
Adverbs of Manner
each sentence.
loud quick quiet bad easy slow fast noisy
1 I can learn English . 5 Shawn does math .
2 She talks . 6 A turtle moves .
3 A cat moves . 7 Mr. Moss drives his car .
4 A rock singer sings .
Write ten sentences using the adverbs provided.
Ex) I think my dad drives slowly.
fast quickly correctly
Adverb badly easily hard
carefully happily loudly
slowly
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