INTERMEDIATE ______________________________________________________________ADVERBS
ADJECTIVES
Tell us about a noun (something
or somebody)
a) Adjective before a noun.
b) Adjective after copulative
verbs: be, look, seem,
feel, smell, taste, sound.
ADVERBS
Tell us about a verb (how
somebody does something or how
something happens)
a) Adverb after a verb
b) Adverb before an adjective
c) Adverb before another adv
a) We didn’t go because of the heavy rain.
John is a careful driver
b) This cake tastes good
It sounds great.
IRREGULAR ADVERBS
Good well
Fast fast
Hard hard
Late late
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- 1 - USE THE ADJECTIVE IN BRACKETS OR MAKE AN ADVERB (ADJ+LY) AS NECESSARY
1. (careful) You must read the instructions ______carefully_________ before you use the machine.
2. (noisy) Children are always very _______noisy________
3. (angry) Something had happened to him. He had an _________angry______ look.
4. (beautiful) Don’t you think she paints ______beautifully_________ ?
5. (free) She will understand anything you tell her. You can talk to her ___________freelly____
6. (clear) It’s important that you write all the details ____clearly___________
7. (hungry/economical) The population in many African countries are __hungry_____________
because they have a lot of ___________economical____ problems.
8. (good) He plays tennis very __good_____________
9. (quiet) The boys were so ______quiet_________ that I thought they were planning something.
10. (sure) I was ______sure_________ that I had left the camera on the table.
11. (slow) I have to buy a new car. This one is very ________slow_______
12. (warm) They gave us a very ____warm___________ welcome.
13. (comfortable) When I arrived he was sitting ___________comfortably____ in an armchair.
14. (hard) We worked _____hardly__________ all day.
15. (fast) Don’t drive so _____fast__________! It’s dangerous.
16. (easy) It wasn’t ________easy_______ to find their house in the middle of the night.
17. Can I use your phone, please? / (certain) Yes, ________certainly_______
18. (happy) When I gave him the present, he looked at me _______happily________
a) It rained heavily
John drove carefully
b) I’m terribly sorry
He was seriously injured
c) Ann learns languages incredibly
quickly
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