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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).
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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).

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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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