Adverbs of Manner and Time

ADVERB OF MANNER

USE

We use the adverbs of manner to describe an action or verb fror example

He runs quickly

how does he run? Quickly

rules to create an adverb

• most adjectives - slow-slowly- quick-quickly

• adj. ends with Y- happy - happily

• irregular adverbs good- well / fast-fast/ hard -hard

place in a sentence

We use adverbs of manner after the verb or, if there is an object, after verb + object.

He drives carefully. She plays the guitar well. 

very, really, quite 

We can use very, really, quite before an adverb of manner.

It rained quite heavily.  He drives quite carefully.  She plays the guitar really well.

 

adjectives vs adverbs

We use adjectives to describe a noun (before a noun or after the verb be), and we use adverbs of manner to describe a verb (after the verb or verb + object). Compare:

Robert plays the guitar well. (=We are describing the verb, i.e. how Robert plays the guitar.) Robert is a good guitar player. (=We are describing the noun, Robert.) Sara eats slowly.  Sara is a slow eater. 

NOTE

Some words end in -ly, but they are adjectives, NOT adverbs: friendly, lovely, silly. We CANNOT transform these adjectives into adverbs of manner.

 

Multiple Choice

Peter is a ______

driver. He drives very ______

• CAFEFUL/ CAREFULLY

• CAREFULLY/ CAREFUL

Multiple Choice

Turtles walk ______

because they are _______

animals.

• SLOW/SLOWLY

• SLOWLY/ SLOW

Multiple Choice

They are_____; they are speaking ____.

• quiet / quietly

• quietly /quiet

Multiple Choice

Gordon plays very ____. He is a ____ player.

• well/ good

• good/ well

Multiple Choice

We had___ snow yesterday. It snowed___.

• heavy/ heavily

• heavily/ heavy