{"id":74003,"date":"2020-04-14T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74003"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T11:22:33","slug":"adverbs-of-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/adverbs-of-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverbs of Manner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adverbs of manner <\/b>say how <\/b>something happens or is done. Examples are: cleverly, happily, anxiously, pleasantly etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate manner adverb. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(pleasantly, angrily, eagerly, seriously, carefully, well, fast, slowly, recklessly, cleverly, stupidly, beautifully, politely, quickly)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"manner<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. I stupidly<\/strong> left my wallet at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. They carefully<\/strong> sorted the balls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Our team played well<\/strong> yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. He slowly<\/strong> got up off the floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Teen drivers are more likely to drive recklessly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. She politely<\/strong> refused the offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. The children ate the cookies greedily<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. The children performed beautifully<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. She is eagerly<\/strong> waiting for her results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. I am seriously <\/strong>considering their offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. She spoke rather angrily<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Why are you driving so fast<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. I was pleasantly<\/strong> surprised to see Martin at the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. She quickly<\/strong> finished the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worksheet 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Complete each sentence given below using a word from the list. Sometimes you need the adjective and sometimes you need the adverb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(anxious, nervous, perfect, quite, hard, incredible, vivid, large, genuine, quick)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. I was ………………….. impressed by their performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. We sold ……………………. any books yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Time passes ……………………. when you are on a holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. She shows ……………………. concern for the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. The children performed ……………………………. well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. It was an …………………….. performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. She …………………….. narrated every detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. She gave a …………………….. account of the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. These shoes are …………………… for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. The coat fitted me ………………………….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. I feel ……………………. before an exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. She paced the floor …………………………<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. quite, 2. hardly, 3. quickly, 4. genuine, 5. incredibly, 6. incredible, 7. vividly, 8. vivid, 9. large, 10. perfectly, 11. nervous, 12. anxiously<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manner adverbs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adverbs of manner say how something happens or is done. Examples are: cleverly, happily, anxiously, pleasantly etc. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate manner adverb. (pleasantly, angrily, eagerly, seriously, carefully, well, fast, slowly, recklessly, cleverly, stupidly,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1217,2651,2652],"class_list":["post-74003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-adverbs","tag-adverbs-of-manner","tag-manner-adverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77840,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74003\/revisions\/77840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}