Quickly, Slowly: Adverbs of Action

In November we talked about  adjectives, words we use to describe people, places, things, and ideas. Today, we're going to look at,

Adverbs of Action

Adverbs are used to describe actions, so we use verbs (actions) with adverbs. Let's look at an example showing the difference adverbs and adjectives. 

Look at the photo above:

Sprinters are very strong runners. (adjective) 

Sprinters run very strongly. (adverb) 

"Strong" is used to talk about the sprinters. However, "strongly" is used to talk about how the sprinters run (verbs). 

We make adverbs by adding "ly" to the end of the adjective (strong -> strongly). Words ending with "y", use "ily" (happy -> happily). 

We also have irregular adverbs that don't end with "ly": 

good ---> well

fast ---> fast

hard ---> hard

late ---> late

early ---> early

straight ---> straight

wrong ---> wrong or wrongly

(Note: there's the adverb "hardly" but that is an adverb of frequency, it's not used with verbs). 


 


Complete the sentences below using the correct adverb (sometimes there's more than one right option).  Use the words from this list: slow, loud, angry, quick, fast, hard, powerful, dangerous

 

1/ Trevor cheers_______ for his football team everywhere they play.

 
2/ Nigel is training very_______ to lose weight.

3/ The Hulk always fights his enemies_______

4/ Miho is a boxer can hit the speed bag very_______

5/ The diver is swimming_______ close to the sharks.