Adjectives & Adverbs
How can you form adverbs of manner (which describe how things happen)?
Study the grammar reference chart below.
Adverbs describe verbs and adjectives. To form regular adverbs, add ‘-ly’ to most
adjectives. Words ending in ‘-y’ change to ‘-ily’.
angry
angrily
immediate
immediately
anxious
anxiously
jealous
jealously
bad
brave
busy
calm
careful
careless
certain
correct
curious
eager
easy
excited
extreme
fast
fortunate
furious
generous
gentle
glad
good
happy
hard
honest
hungry
badly
bravely
busily
calmly
carefully
carelessly
certainly
correctly
curiously
eagerly
easily
excitedly
extremely
fast
fortunately
furiously
generously
gently
gladly
well
happily
hard
honestly
hungrily
kind
lazy
loud
natural
nervous
painful
patient
perfect
playful
polite
quick
quiet
rude
safe
selfish
separate
serious
slow
sudden
terrible
tired
violent
wise
wrong
kindly
lazily
loudly
naturally
nervously
painfully
patiently
perfectly
playfully
politely
quickly
quietly
rudely
safely
selfishly
separately
seriously
slowly
suddenly
terribly
tiredly
violently
wisely
wrongly
NOTE 1: fast hard, and well are irregular adverbs. Note also that the difference in meaning
between ‘hard’ and ‘hardly’ (not listed above) – “She works hard” vs. “She hardly works.”
NOTE 2: Adverbs can be placed either before or after the verb (except the following adverbs:
fast, hard, and well – which are always placed after the verb they describe.)
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