| Adverbs are used to say how or in what manner we do something. • She danced very gracefully. • The children ran up the stairs noisily. • They were all chatting happily when we arrived. • He drove carefully along the icy road. • The technician explained the problem very clearly. | ||
| Formation of adverbs | Adjective | Adverb |
| Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the adjective : | slow careful | slowly carefully |
| For adjectives ending in -y, -e, -ic, the adverbs are formed as follows : | happy humble historic | happily humbly historically |
| Exceptions : | good hard fast | well hard fast |
| N.B. Although they end in -ly, the following words are adjectives, NOT adverbs : friendly, lively, lonely, lovely, silly, ugly for example : a friendly person, a silly remark, an ugly duckling, and so on ... | ||
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Adverbs
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