Adverb & Adjective

Name:

A. Fill each blank with a suitable adverb of manner.

1. The principal advised the naughty students ____________________.
2. Please walk ____________________. The floor is very slippery.
3. Bobby ____________________ broke the vase just now.
4. Handle these plates and glasses ____________________.
5. My uncle looked ____________________ at his successful daughters.
6. My neighbor cried ____________________ when she heard about her son’s death.
7. The maid crept ____________________ into the baby’s room.
8. The beggar took the money ____________________ from us.
9. My brave brother chased after the thief ____________________.
10. The staff work ____________________ for their employer.

B. Fill in each blank with the appropriate adverb of degree. You can use each word only once.

absolutely very completely

excessively progressively slightly heartily
certainly simply really

1. I ____________________ don’t care about what he does.

2. You ____________________ don’t understand what I want to do.
3. I want to go to the concert ____________________ much.
4. She ____________________ rejected his proposal.
5. I ____________________ endorsed the new restaurant.
6. Jim ____________________ refuses to stay here any longer.
7. Martha is ____________________ overweight; she has trouble walking.
8. Nadia is ____________________ telling the truth.
9. The child’s fever is getting ____________________ worse.
10. My scores are ____________________ higher than the previous ones.
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5. Did you know that learning to ski is than

1. He is better at golf at swimming because learning to skate?
he even doesn't know how to hit the ball.
A) far more easier
A) so / and B) much easier
B) any / so C) so much easy
C) much / than D) as easy
D) more / to E) the easiest
E) no / than

6. Antique sales in the United States are profitable

2. Do you know that ice-cream has about calories they used to be.
as three glasses of milk?
A) more / than
A) so many B) so / as
B) as many C) such / that
C) so much D) such / as
D) as much E) as / than
E) as well

7. He hasn't done well in life his sister

3. I have no doubt that in 2007 the French and the because he's been given fewer chances.
German will continue to be receptive to foreign
entrepreneurs the British. A) so / as
B) such / as
A) more / as
C) so / that
B) such / that
D) as / that
C) so / that
E) more / than
D) less / than
E) much / than

8. You should be concentrating on your project

________
Few events have powerfully influenced the listening to music all night long.
4.
political and economic development of our world
11th September terrorist attacks. A) so that
B) even if
A) much / than C) rather than
B) such / that D) such as
C) the most / for E) no more
D) so / as
E) too / that

9. It's a box for me to lift by myself so I think I

need some help with this.

A) big
B) too big
C) very big
D) a too big
E) such big
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14. Those who had been attacked gradually left,

leaving Birmingham a
conservative city it had been throughout the
10. I have little free time I probably won't be eighteenth century.
able to attend the meeting.
A) much / as
A) too / for B) more / than
B) such / that C) so / as
C) so / that D) such / that
D) very / to E) so / that
E) so / as

15. Our teacher was so indecisive that she was

11. His attitude towards the verdict was everyone persuaded to change her mind again.
supposed he was guilty.
A) readily
A) so much B) subtly
B) as C) abruptly
C) such that D) hardly
D) like E) punctually
E) similar

16. Prevention of future needs will often avert far

12. This pullover is thicker than that black one but hardship a response after the fact.
it seems it is worse quality.
A) a s /as
A) quite / as B) so / that
B) moderately / just as C) such / as
C) slightly / much D) more / than
D) very / fairly E) so / as
E) rather / more

17. Although no two language courses are organized in

13. When the weather will warm up again, it will also be the same way, nearly all of them use the same
the time when butterflies become and lay many type of system, materials and curriculum.
eggs which will soon turn into nice chubby juicy
caterpillars, the favourite food of wasps and their A) eternally
larva. B) roughly
A) as actively C) approximately
B) so active as D) exactly
C) more actively than E) especially
D) such active as
E) more active
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18. Our manager always tells that he has met 21. It was a boring book I didn't want to read it
different businessmen in his career he now once more.
knows all kinds of them very well.
A) so / that
A) too much / as B) as / as
B) such a lot of / for C) very / that
C) too little / so D) so / as
D) so many / that E) such / that
E) more / than

22. Actually, I didn't grow up here. I moved here

19. John's parents received a letter from his teacher from another town.
that said he was a good student, but that he talked
to his friends during the lesson. A) lately
B) hardly
A) incoherently
C) properly
B) infallibly
D) nearly
C) vaguely
E) almost
D) illegibly
E) incessantly

23. The party was not a success because anyone

came.
20. "Did you enjoy your vacation?" “Well, I didn't like
Egypt Turkey.” A) just
B) almost
A) the half of
C) only
B) half as much as
D) hardly
C) half the much
E) many
D) half the time as
E) half as much of
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