Adverbs of Manner
Los adverbios de modo sealan cmo se realiza la accin indicada por el verbo.
Muchos se forman partiendo del adjetivo y agregando "-ly". Si el adjetivo termina con "y", se
cambia por "ily". Si termina en "ble", se cambia por "bly". Si termina en "ic", se agrega "ally".
sudden (rpido) - suddenly (rpidamente)
She came back home suddenly.
Volvi a la casa rpidamente.
happy (feliz) - happily (felizmente)
The dog wags its tail happily.
El perro mueve felizmente la cola.
possible (posible) - possibly (posiblemente)
You will possibly arrive late.
Posiblemente llegues tarde.
basic (bsico) - basically (bsicamente)
Basically, you have to do this.
Bsicamente, debes hacer esto.
Algunos adjetivos pueden no modificarse cuando se convierten en adverbios.
This train goes fast.
Este tren va rpido.
I work hard.
Trabajo mucho.
Muchas veces en lugar de usar una sola palabra se forman frases que comienzan con preposicin.
Jim goes to school by bus.
Jim va a la escuela en autobs.
Exercise: In the following sentences put in each space the adverb made from the adjective
in brackets.
absolutely
angrily completely continuously dramatically hard
publicly strangely stupidly tidily usually
noisily
1. I agree with you _________________. You're __________ right. (complete, absolute)
2. I'm afraid I _______________forgot to bring my camera. (stupid)
3. The work very _________________. (hard)
4. My mum looked at me _________________. (angry)
5. Here is ______________ very noisy, but today it is _________ quiet. (usual, strange)
6. The students were behaving _________________ in the classroom. (noisy)
7. He apologized ______________________ for his mistakes. (public)
8. It snowed _____________________ for the three days. (continuous)
9. The play ended ___________________ with the hero's death. (dramatic)
10. She arranged her room ____________________, everything in its place. (tidy)
Adjective or adverb
badly
beautiful
beautiful beautifully beautifully boring
fast interesting nice stupid well
different
easily
We have got a lot of __________________ pupils in our class. Here are some of them:
Sally is a ___________________________ girl and she plays the guitar very
_________________________. The boys think Sandra is even _____________________
and she is _______________________, too. But the girls think she is ________________
because she always talks so clever and she plays volleyball ________________________.
She cannot swim ______________________ enough and she always does what the
teachers tell her. But everybody likes Pat because she sings _______________________.
And she plays the saxophone even more ______________________________. The most
___________________________ pupil is Cindy. She is tall, good looking and all the boys
fall in love with her ___________________________. She is very clever and she doesn't
talk as _________________________ as a lot of our other girl.
Adjective or adverb
1. This lady has a _________________ voice (loud).
2. Jack always speaks ______________________ (loud).
3. Mary waits _____________________ in the doctor's waiting room (patient).
4. Dad was quite ______________________ yesterday (sleepy).
5. Jim picked up the phone and spoke __________________ (quiet).
6. Mary Works __________________ (careful).
7. Jack is often __________________ (happy).
8. Nelly walked around _________________ (nervous).
9. That man is a ___________________ person (nervous).
10. Susan and George work ___________________ (slow).
11. Jill runs to school _________________ (fast)
12. Tom runs home _________________ (quick)
13. His story sounds ________________ (strange).
14. The cat drinks its milk in a ___________________ way (thirsty).
15. 15. The dog is always __________________ (hungry).
16. She always works _________________. (careful)
17. Ann often behaves __________________ in school. (bad)
18. He is often very ___________________. (nervous)
19. He works very ___________________. (good)
20. This steak tastes ________________. (great)
21. She looked at me ____________________. (angry)
22. She looks _____________________. (pretty)
23. They skate ___________________. (good)
24. He was very ___________________ that he won the race. (happy)
25. That sounds ____________________. (great)
26. The doctor said that my leg was ______________________. (fragil)
27. The restaurant seems to be _____________________. (nice)
28. I like roses. They smell _______________________. (good)
29. Their son is a bit _____________________. (silly)
30. The cat's fur (skin) felt _______________ ( soft) and ___________________.
(warm)
