Look at the following examples:
ably
airily
avidly
baldly
barely
boldly
busily
calmly
coldly
coolly
1.
The scouts were ably schooled by my daughter.
2.
He airily dismissed the promises he made to me.
3.
My son reads books avidly.
4.
Tell the truth baldly and quickly. Don’t
embellish the truth.
5.
Many families can barely meet their monthly expenditure.
6.
Mandela boldly led
South Africa
into
the new democracy.
7.
Many schools are busily adapting to the new curriculum.
8.
The pilot calmly landed the jet though one engine was on
fire.
9.
The wind blew coldly for days on end.
10. The robber coolly walked away
with his stash.
An adverb
usually modifies a verb or an adjective. It indicates how, where, when,
why or to what extent something was done. The adverbs, in the examples
above, tell of the manner of
the action in each instance. How did my daughter school the scouts? How
did Mandela lead
South Africa
? How did the wind blow? How does my son read his
books?
Use the adverbs which follow to make sentences which tell how, why, when
or where something was done.
cutely
darkly
deadly
dearly
deeply
deftly
drably
evenly
fairly
finely
firmly
flatly
fondly
freely
fully
gladly
glibly
glumly
grimly
hardly
idly
kindly
lamely
lastly
lately
lazily
loud
mildly
nearly
neatly
spryly
surely
tamely
tartly
tautly
tidily
truly
warmly
weakly
wisely
ADVERBS IN USE
1.
I got up early. We prepared
breakfast together. The house work was soon done. The
house was suddenly still indeed. Laura was, if possible, brighter,
and gayer and sweeter than usual. I began to think
that a little domestic toil was really good for her. We had never
been so merry.
2.
‘Come on, then,’ I said sullenly
to the doctor. ‘I’m awfully indebted to you. I have been
working rather hard. Perhaps that’s it.
‘I am aware of that,’ he answered very
grimly. I ought to go up to Palmer’s, but it’s so late
now. I had better leave it till morning.
That was just as well for as we got
into the house there was Laura fallen back across a table, her
head hung down, and her eyes were wide, wide open. They
saw nothing now. Her hands were tightly clenched. In one
of them she held something fast. When I was quite sure she
was dead, and that nothing mattered at all any more, I reluctantly
let him open her hand to see what she held.
Both extracts substantially adapted from
Man-Size in Marble by
E.
Nesbit
.
Cathay
Books.
London
.
1983.
