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Adj Vs Adverbs

The document provides a revision exercise on adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe nouns and usually come before them, while adverbs describe verbs and usually end in "-ly". There are also exceptions to the "-ly" rule. The exercise then contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions to test understanding of adjectives and adverbs. Students are asked to identify examples, place the words in sentences correctly, and choose the right word class of underlined examples.

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Adj Vs Adverbs

The document provides a revision exercise on adjectives and adverbs. It defines adjectives as words that describe nouns and usually come before them, while adverbs describe verbs and usually end in "-ly". There are also exceptions to the "-ly" rule. The exercise then contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions to test understanding of adjectives and adverbs. Students are asked to identify examples, place the words in sentences correctly, and choose the right word class of underlined examples.

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ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS (Revision exercises)

Adjectives describe nouns and usually come before Adverbs describe verbs and they usually
them. Tom is a good tennis player. end in –ly but there are some exceptions:
Adjectives come after certain verbs: appear, be, feel, late, fast, hard, well
look, seem, smell, sound, taste. Tom reads slowly.
That man seemed kind. Sarah plays the violin well.

1) Write the missing 2) Look at the underlined words. Are they adjectives or adverbs?
adverbs. Circle the right word.
Adjective Adverb 1 Nick is a really friendly boy. adj/adv
perfect perfectly 2 Does your sister work hard at school? adj/adv
easy ________ 3 The meat smelled very tasty! adj/adv
whole ________
usual ________ 4 Don’t run so fast, I can’t follow you.
possible ________ adj/adv
hard ________ 5 I usually get very tired after a long walk in the forest. adj/adv
fast ________
good ________
true ________ 6 Sarah is not at all afraid of spiders. adj/adv
7 We had awful weather last week.
3) Choose the correct alternative. adj/adv

1 I think Mary looked wonderful/wonderfully in red – this colour suits


her.
2 John has to work hard/hardly to become a scientist.
3 My friend Sam often tells/tells often very strange stories.
4 There have been some films popular/popular films about famous
people.
5: The story of Troy is probably/probable the most famous Greek myth.
6 You shouldn’t drive so fastly /fast – it’s dangerous!
4) Put the underlined words in the correct 5) Put the adjectives and adverbs into the
sentences. correct places in the sentences.
Example: 1 Adam always had good ideas and he 1 I need to check my work because I sometimes
answered the question very happy -cleverly make mistakes. (careless)____________________
(8) _________________________________________
2 The snow began to fall as the children went
2 Tourists ancient ……….learn many words
through the mountains. (heavily)._____________
of our language.
_________________________________________
3 We hope they arrived home often …………. 3They can find a simple explanation for
It’s a very long journey. anything. (usually)._________________________
_________________________________________
4 Ted can see that Ann feels intelligent
4 Mr. Grey loves his comfortable leather
………… today. She can’t stop smiling.
armchair. (old)____________________________
5 Jill has never ……………. gone shopping.
5 That food smells – I’m going to throw it out
We expect she’ll be home soon.
right now! (bad) __________________________
6 Peter’s a really probably …………. student. _________________________________________
He always gets good marks in his exams. 6 You shouldn’t walk through the city centre at
this time of night. (definitely)
7 In safely ……………… times, they travelled
_________________________________________
everywhere on foot.
7 Sally bought a pair of new red rain boots.
8 Jane cleverly ………… forgets to lock the (nice)____________________________________
door when she goes out.
KEY
1)
easily, wholly, usually, possibly, hard, fast, well, truly

2)
1 adj 2 adv 3 adj 4 adv 5 adv 6 adj 7 adj

3)
1 wonderful 2 hard 3 often tells 4 popular films 5 probably 6 fast

4)
1 cleverly 2 never 3 safely 4 happy 5 probably 6 intelligent 7 ancient 8 often

5)

1 I need to check my work because I sometimes make CARELESS mistakes.

2 The snow began to fall HEAVILY as the children went through the mountains.

3 They can USUALLY find a simple explanation for anything.

4 Mr. Grey loves his comfortable OLD leather armchair.

5 That food smells BAD – I’m going to throw it out right now!

6 You DEFINITELY shouldn’t walk through the city centre at this time of night.

7 Sally bought a pair of NICE new red rain boots.

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