ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB

1. Use the adjective or adverb in brackets to complete each of the following pairs
of sentences correctly.

a. It’s an ___________ question. You should be able to answer it quite

_____________ (easy / easily).
b. I can type a bit but I’m very _____________. I’m afraid I can only type very
_____________ (slow / slowly).
c. Mr Robbins shouted _______________ at the children. The children made Mr
Robbins very ______________. (angry / angrily)
d. Use this chair if you want to sit _____________. Use this chair. It’s very
_______________. (comfortable / comfortably)
e. Mary sang ______________ at the concert last night. Mary sang a
_______________ song at the concert last night (beautiful / beautifully).
f. There’s no need to feel _____________. Peter answered the questions
______________ (nervous / nervously).
g. What was wrong with Bill? He looked very ______________. Bill shook his
head _________________ (sad / sadly).
h. The children played together very _________________. (happy / happily).
i. I’m afraid you have done this piece of work ___________________. I’m afraid
your work has been very __________________ (careless / carelessly).

2. Choose the correct alternative.

a. They dance the cha-cha-cha beautiful / beautifully.

b. She planned their trip to Greece very careful /carefully.
c. Jim painted the kitchen very bad / badly.
d. She speaks very quiet / quietly.
e. Turn the stereo down. It’s too loud / loudly.
f. He skipped happy / happily down the road to school.
g. He drives too fast / well.
h. She knows the road good / well.
i. He plays the guitar terrible / terribly.
j. We’re going camping tomorrow so we have to get up early / soon.
k. Andy doesn’t often work hard / hardly.
l. Sometimes our teacher arrives late / lately for class.

3. Choose the correct alternative.

a. She doesn’t speak a lot of English, but she writes good / well.
b. Are you sitting comfortably / comfortable? I’m going to start the video.
c. The final exam was extremely easy / easily.
d. The taxi driver was very slow / slowly. We were 10 minutes late.
e. That man is very strange / strangely. I don’t like him very much.