1. ADVERBS OF MANNER

2. Weuse adverbs of mannerto describe howsomethinghappens. “He eatsveryhealthily.” “John writesquickly.” “Oldpeopleusually drive slowly.”

3. Weusuallyformadverbs of mannerbyadding–lytotheadjective. bad - badly careful - carefully

4. Iftheadjectiveends in –e , take offthe–e. gentle – gently simple – simply reasonable - reasonably

5. Iftheadjectiveends in –y, weusuallychangethe–yto–i. angry – angrily easy – easily happy – happily healthy – healthily heavily – heavily noisy – nosily busy – busily butshy - shyly

6. Iftheadjectivesends in –ic, weadd–ally. dramatic – dramatically tragic – tragically

7. Someadjectivesend in –ly: friendly, lonely, lovely, silly, ugly, deadly, lively … Wedon’tadd–lytomaketheadverb. We use: in a ... way / manner “He wastalkingin a sillyway.” “Theydanced in a livelymanner.”

8. Someadverbs are thesame as theadjectives: early fast hard high late low right wrong

9. well is the adverb from good “Sleep well.” “He plays football well.” well can also be an adjective. It means healthy. “My teacher was not at school today. He is not well.”

10. Adverbs of manner can come before or after a verb. “He drove carefully because the weather was bad. “She quietly went upstairs.” But they must come after an object if there is one. “You speak English well.” “You speak well English.”

11. When a sentenceconsists of verb + preposition + object we can puttheadverbbeforetheprepositionoraftertheobject. “Shelistenedto me carefully.” “Shelistenedcarefullyto me.”

12. Whenwe use a passiveform, theadverbgoesbeforethepastparticiple. “He wasbadlyinjured.” “The CD wasslightlydamaged in the post butstillworked.”