Spelling Rule 3a - Adverbs

How are many adverbs formed?

• by adding -ly

• by adding -es

• by changing the y to i and adding -es

• by adding an s

COMPLETE WITH ADVERBS

1. Aunt Anne is a careful driver. So she drives ...

• careful

• carefully

COMPLETE WITH ADVERBS

2. Harry is a bad player because he plays ...

• badly

• bad

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ADVERB

6. Peter is a fast swimmer. He swims ...

• fast

• fastly

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ADVERB

7. Lucy is a hard worker. She works ...

• hard

• hardly

CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE FORM OF THE ADVERB

8. Da Vinci could draw and paint .... (beautiful)

• beautifuly

• beautifully

We lost the football match 4–2 yesterday.

I don't think we played_______

• Badly

• Bad

Identify de ADVERB in the sentence:

The classroom was strangely quiet.

• quiet

• strangely

• classroom

• was

Identify de ADVERB in the sentence:

Alice's camera was surprisingly cheap.

• surprisingly

• camera

• cheap

• was

Which of these words is an adverb?

• boy

• playing

• carefully