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Grammar Elementary

This guide explains how to form adverbs of manner by adding "-ly" to adjectives, including specific rules for adjectives with different endings. Learn how to convert words like "quick" to "quickly" and "happy" to "happily," along with exceptions and the proper usage in sentences. We clarify common sources of confusion, such as the word "hardly," and demonstrate sentence construction to help reinforce understanding. This resource is an essential tool for mastering adverbs in English grammar.

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Grammar Elementary

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  1. Grammar Elementary Adverbs of manner

  2. Form • Wecanformthis type of adverb by adding–lyto anadjective: quick→quickly bad→badly shy → shyly quiet → quietly careful→ carefully

  3. Form • Adjectives of more thanonesyllableending in –ychangethe–y to –i and add–ly: heavy→ heavily happy → happily noisy→ noisily thirsty → thirstily

  4. Form • Adjectivesending in –bleremovethe–e andadd–y: reasonable→ reasonably expectable → expectably formidable→ formidably impossible → impossibly

  5. Form • Adjectivesending in –icremoveadd–ally: dramatic→ dramatically fantastic → fantastically majestic→ majestically academic → academically tragic → tragically

  6. Form • Theadjectivegooddoes not followthe–lyrule. • Itsrelatedadverbiswell. He is a goodfootballplayer. He playsfootballwell.

  7. Note • Someadverbs and adjectives are thesame. • Fast, hard, early, late, high, low, right, wrong. Itis a fast car. This car isgoingfast. He isanearlybird. He getsupearly.

  8. Note • Someadjectives end in –ly are not adverbs: lovely, friendly, silly, lonely... • To make anadverbsfrom these adjectiveswesayin alovely/ in afriendly… He wastalkingin a sillyway. Theydancedin a lovelymanner.

  9. Confusion • Oneadverbthatcausesconfusionishardly. • Themeaning of theadverbis: almost not. • Itisusedbefore a verb. I’m sorry. I hardlyknow her. = I almost do not know her.

  10. Usage • Look at these sentences: 1) The boy isbad. (adjective) 2) Thisis a bad boy. (adjective) 3) The boy behavesbadly. (adverb)

  11. Word order • Beforeorafter verb: He readcarefullybecausetheletterwasveryimportant. Shequietlycameintothebedroom. • Afteranobjectifthereisone: Marina playsthe piano well. He waslooking on her shyly.

  12. Literatura CLARKE, S. MacmillanEnglish Grammar In ContextEssential. 1. vyd. Oxford: Macmillan Publisher Ltd, 2008. ISBN 978-1-5040-7049-2. MURPHY, R. Essential Grammar in Use. 3. vyd. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-67543-7.

  13. Writepresentsimplesentences and adverbs: • You/type/slow. • They/cook/good. • Cindy/eat/quick. • She/getup/early. • I/complain/loud. • They/write/academic

  14. Děkujiza pozornost.

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