Adverbs of manner (slowly) or adjectives (slow)?

Adverbs of manner (slowly) or adjectives (slow)?

Exercise 2

Complete the following sentences with the correct adjectives or adverbs of manner.

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1 He normally drives very _____.

A.slow

B.fastly

C.fast

2 I passed _____.

A.easily the test

B.the test easily

C.easy the test

3 The people in this company work very _____.

A.hard

B.hardly

C.good

4 She is a _____ teacher.

A.well

B.good

C.goodly

5 She teaches English very _____.

A.good

B.goodly

C.well

6 You answered _____.

A.correctly the question

B.the question correctly

C.the question correct

7 The article describes the situation very _____.

A.simple

B.simplely

C.simply

8 They live _____ in Munich.

A.happy

B.happyly

C.happily

9 After the break, we _____.

A.finished the job easily

B.easily finished the job

C.finished the job easy

10 He didn't speak _____ English.

A.clearly

B.clear

C.well

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Adverbs of manner

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Adverbs of manner: Use

We use adverbs of manner after a verb to describe the verb. We use an adverb of manner to say how something happens or how we do something.

• It rained heavily. (=We are describing how it rained.)
• He always replies quickly. (=We are describing how he replies)

Adverbs of manner: Position

We use adverbs of manner after the verb or, if there is an object, after verb + object.

• He drives carefully.
• She plays the guitar well. 

Very, really, quite

We can use very, really, quite before an adverb of manner.

• It rained quite heavily. 
• He drives quite carefully. 
• She plays the guitar really well.

Adjectives

We use adjectives before a noun or after the verb be.

• This is an expensive guitar. 
• This guitar is expensive. 

Adverbs of manner vs adjectives

Difference

We use adjectives to describe a noun (before a noun or after the verb be), and we use adverbs of manner to describe a verb (after the verb or verb + object). Compare:

• Robert plays the guitar well. (=We are describing the verb, i.e. how Robert plays the guitar.)
• Robert is a good guitar player. (=We are describing the noun, Robert.)
• Sara eats slowly. 
• Sara is a slow eater. 

For a common mistake with good and well, see our dictionary entry on good.

Adjectives ending in -ly

Some words end in -ly, but they are adjectives, NOT adverbs: friendly, lovely, silly. We CANNOT transform these adjectives into adverbs of manner.