Name: _______________________________ Grade and Section: ___________________ Score: ________________

I. Write the appropriate adverb of manner for each sentence.

1. James is careful. He drives ________________________.
2. The girl is slow. She walks ______________________.
3. Her English is perfect. She speaks English __________________.
4. Our teacher is angry. She shouts _____________________.
5. My neighbor is a loud speaker. He speaks __________________.
6. He is a bad writer . He writes ___________________.
7. Jane is a nice guitar player. He plays the guitar ________________.
8. He is a good painter . He paints __________________.
9. She is a quiet girl. She does her job ____________________.
10. This exercise is easy. You can do it __________________.
II. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. In the following sentence, what are the adverbs? The friendly store owner worked quickly.
a. Owner
b. Friendly
c. Worker
d. Store
e. Quickly
2. In the following sentence, what are the adverbs? The very large ball fell quickly.
a. ball
b. very
c. quickly
d. large, quickly
e. quickly, very
3. In the following sentence, what are adverbs? James was an unlikely candidate for this very selective college.
a. James
b. Unlikely
c. Selective
d. Very
e. Unlikely, very
4. Suddenly, James found his quiet, boring life had changed.
a. Quiet
b. Boring
c. Suddenly
d. Life
e. Changed
5. The size of the cars wheels made it almost unsellable.
a. Unsellable
b. Wheels
c. Almost
d. Cars
e. Almost, unsellable
6. The slowly emerging monster was frightenly fierce.
a. Slowly
b. Monster, fierce
c. Emerging
d. Slowly, frightenly
e. Frightenly
7. The speaker delivered his lines well.
a. Speaker
b. Good, well
c. Delivered
d. Good
e. Well
8. Life is not quite as bad as it seems at the time.
a. Not, quite
b. Not
c. Quite
d. Seems, quite
e. Life
9. The car doesnt run.
 a. Car
b. Run
c. Does
d. Does, not
e. Not
10. The snake crawls on the ground.
a. Snake
b. Crawls
c. The
d. On the ground
e. on
III. Complete the sentences with the best adverb.
Hint: Not every adverb is needed.
slowly carefully beautifully well loudly carelessly easily excitedly finally suddenly quickly quietly

1. Come here ____________. You have to see this!

2. We knew that she had got the job when we saw her _________ talking on the phone.
3. He ______________ put the vase on the table. It fell to the floor.
4. Sharon is throwing a party on Saturday. She ___________ finished her PhD.
5. Lets walk ________________. I dont want to be the first one at the meeting.
6. Alex _____________ put up the bookshelves. It was too difficult for me to do on my own.
7. Every thing happened so ______________. We had to move to California in less than a month.
8. Why does he always have to talk so ____________. You can hear him in the next room!
9. Although she speaks five languages, she did not do ___________ on the translation exam.
10. I was so surprised. His new apartment was _____________ decorated.
IV. Adverb or Adjective?
Complete the sentence using an adjective or adverb.
To make adverbs we often add ly at the end of an adjective (words that describe a noun)
Example: beautiful (adjective) girl (noun)
beautiful + ly = beautifully (adverb)
1. Hes always in a rush. I dont understand why he walks so ____________ (quick/quickly).
2. I prefer studying in the library. Its always_______________ (quiet/quietly).
3. Michael __________ (happy/happily) took the assistant job. He had been looking for a position all summer.
4. Marta dances _____________ (beautiful/beautifully). Shes been taking ballet since she was five years old.
5. They speak French very ____________ (good/well). They lived in France for two years.
6. My neighbor always plays ___________ (loud/loudly) music on the weekends. Its so annoying.
7. Please be __________ (careful/carefully) in the hallway. The walls have just been painted.
8. Dan is very smart, but he is not a very___________ (good/well) student.
9. He reacted __________ (angry/angrily) to the news. I have never seen him so upset.
10. We didnt ______________ (complete/completely) understand the teachers instructions. Most of us did not finish
the assignment.

V. Underline the adverb/s in the following sentences and identify its type.
1. Recently Congress voted unanimously for the bill.
2. Absentmindedly Carl strolled casually into the wrong classroom.
3. Look everywhere for the watch.
4. Put the newspapers there.
5. I frequently visit my grandparents.
6. Sometimes I wax the car.
7. He quickly and accurately threw the ball to third base.
8. Roy has carefully read the contract.
9. I have almost finished my report.
10. Ralph receives the magazine monthly.