UNIT 100. Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/ quickly) ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE FOR INTERMEDIATE

ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE FOR INTERMEDIATE

UNIT 100. Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/ quickly)

A	Look at these examples: √ Our holiday was too short- the time passed very quickly. √ Two people were seriously injured in the accident. Quickly and seriously are adverbs. Many adverbs are formed from an adjective+ -ly: adjective: quick serious careful quiet heavy bad adverb: quickly seriously carefully quietly heavily badly For spelling, see Appendix 6. Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in -ly too, for example: friendly lively elderly lonely silly lovely
B	Adjective or adverb? Adjectives (quick/careful etc.) tell us about a noun (somebody or something). We use adjectives before nouns: √ Sam is a careful driver. (not a carefully driver) √ We didn't go out because of the heavy rain. Adverbs (quickly/carefully etc.) tell us about a verb (how somebody does something or how something happens): √ Sam drove carefully along the narrow road. (not drove careful) √ We didn't go out because it was raining heavily. (not raining heavy) We also use adjectives after some verbs, especially be, and also look/feel/sound etc. Compare: √ Please be quiet. √ I was disappointed that my exam results were so bad. √ Why do you always look so serious? √ I feel happy √ Please speak quietly √ I was unhappy that I did so badly in the exam. (not did so bad √ Why do you never take me seriously? √ The children were playing happily.
C	We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs. For example: reasonably cheap terribly sorry incredibly quickly (adverb +adjective) (adverb +adjective) (adverb +adverb) √ It's a reasonably cheap restaurant and the food is extremely good. I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to push you. (not terrible sorry) Maria learns languages incredibly quickly. The exam was surprisingly easy. √ √ √ You can also use an adverb before a past participle (injured/organised/written etc.): √ Two people were seriously injured in the accident. (not serious injured) The meeting was badly organised. √

EXERCISES

100.1	Complete each sentence with an adverb. The first letters of the adverb are given. 1 We didn't go out because it was raining ___heavily____. 2 Our team lost the game because we played very ba_________ I didn't have any problems finding a place to live. I found a flat quite ea_________ 3 4 We had to wait for a long time, but we didn't complain. We waited pat_________ Nobody knew Steve was coming to see us. He arrived unex_________ Mike keeps fit by playing tennis reg_________ 5 6 7 I don't speak French very well, but I can understand per_________ if people speak sl_________ and cl_________.
100.2	Put in the correct word. 1 Two people were ___ seriously _____ injured in the accident. (serious /seriously) 2 The driver of the car had ____ serious ____ injuries. (serious /seriously) 3 I think you behaved very __________. (selfish /selfishly) Tanya is __________upset about losing her job. (terrible /terribly) There was a __________ change in the weather. (sudden /suddenly) 4 5 6 Everybody at the carnival was __________ dressed. (colourful /colourfully) Linda usually wears __________ clothes. (colourful /colourfully) Liz fell and hurt herself really __________. (bad /badly) Joe says he didn't do well at school because he was __________ taught. (bad /badly) Don't go up that ladder. It doesn't look __________. (safe /safely) 7 8 9 10
100.3	Complete each sentence using a word from the box. Sometimes you need the adjective (careful etc.) and sometimes the adverb (carefully etc.). careful(ly) complete(ly) continuous(ly) financial(ly) fluent(ly) happy/ happily nervous(ly) perfect(ly) quick(ly) special(ly) 1 Our holiday was too short. The time passed very ____quickly._______ 2 Steve doesn't take risks when he's driving. He's always _____________________. Sue works _____________________. She never seems to stop. Rachel and Patrick are very _____________________married. Maria's English is very _____________________although she makes quite a lot of mistakes.. 3 4 5 6 I cooked this meal _____________________for you, so I hope you like it. Everything was very quiet. There was _____________________silence. I tried on the shoes and they fitted me _____________________. Do you usually feel _____________________before exams? I'd like to buy a car, but it's _____________________impossible for me at the moment. 7 8 9 10
100.4	Choose two words (one from each box) to complete each sentence. 1 I thought the restaurant would be expensive, but it was _____reasonably cheap.______ 2 Will's mother is ___________ in hospital. What a big house! it's ___________. It wasn't a serious accident. The car was only ___________. 3 4 5 The children are normally very lively, but they're ___________today. When I returned home after 20 years, everything had ___________. The movie was ___________. It could have been much shorter. A lot went wrong during our holiday because it was ___________. 6 7 8

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