EX1. Find the adverbs in the following sentences

1. They worked fast to cover the distance before the breakfast hour.
2. He wanted to go there immediately.
3. He walked farther than I did.
4. They got up very early.
5. Are you quite sure of this?
6. I didn't know it so well as him.
7. Today I feel somewhat better.
8. He does his work quite differently from his brother.
9. I wish he could write more plainly, so that I could read his letters easily.
10. They usually begin to work at 6 o'clock in the morning.
11. He is well spoken of.
12. The children of out school were all neatly dressed
13. He works hard all day

EX2. Put the adverbs in the correct position

1. He has read that book . (already).
2. This book is interesting (extremely).
3. I haven't been there (before).
4. He is on time (seldom).
5. He has a bad pain in his chest (today, very).
6. The elevator operates (automatically).
7. He arrives (on time, never, at the meeting).
8. I saw Dan (at the lecture, last night).
9. I will be there (certainly, by 2 o'clock).
10. He left the office (this afternoon, early).
11. She will return the book (next week, to, the library).
12. She went (at 6 o'clock, to school).
13. He was born (in 1392, at 10 am, on June 14th).
14. They stayed (all day, quietly, there).

EX3. Choose the correct words to fill the blank

1 They dance the Tango (beautiful / beautifully)
2 She planned their trip to Greece very (careful / carefully)
3 Jim painted the kitchen very (bad / badly)
4 She speaks very (quiet / quietly)
5 Turn the stereo down. It's too (loud / loudly)
6 He skipped________ down the road to school. (Happy / happily)
7 He drives too (fast / well)
8 She knows the road (good / well)
9 He plays the guitar (terrible / terribly)
10 We're going camping tomorrow so we have to get up (early /soon)
11 Andy doesn't often work (hard / hardly)
12 Sometimes our teacher arrives______for class. (Late / lately).

13. As the play unfolds, the audience is (subtle / subtly) brought into the grip of an awful evil.
14. In a bold, sometimes (careless / carelessly), form there is nothing academic.
15. The (clever / cleverly) updated detective tale succeeded despite a serious flirt with cliché.
16. Last week we buried my closest friend, and it was a (deep / deeply) moving service.
17. She straightened up and looked out the window (direct / directly) at him.
18. In times gone by, the paddle steamers docked to pick up their loads of (fresh / freshly) bailed cotton.
19. The gulf between the 'rich' and the 'poor' has narrowed, to the point that the word 'poor' is (hard / hardly) applicable.
20. (Interesting / Interestingly), the changes the adapter has made seem designed to make the story even more frightening.
21. He joined dozens of others that sailed (lazy / lazily) toward the surface.
22. He swore so (loud / loudly) at the top of his voice, that she didn't get any sleep all the next night.
23. Frankly, it is very (clever / cleverly) done.
24. We hoped this war could be resolved both (quick / quickly) and with as few civilian casualties as possible.
25. It was (nice / nicely) packaged and wrapped in pretty, recycled paper