Adverbs of Manner

Adverbs of Manner Objective: Write sentences using adverbs of manner Adverbs of manner tell us how something is done. Think about your teacher in class. Sometimes your teachers speak loudly and sometimes they speak softly. Loudly and softly are adverbs of manner. They tell us how the teacher is speaking. Most adverbs of manner have opposites. In this lesson we shall look at a few adverbs of manner and construct sentences with them. Use the following adverbs to complete the sentences below: slowly, sadly, softly and carelessly. 1) The girl walked__________ . 2) The teacher spoke ______________ . 3) The boy wrote ___________ . 4) The lost girl spoke _____________ . The following adverbs are the opposites of the adverbs you have used above: quickly, happily, loudly and carefully. Use them to complete the following sentences. 1) When the lunch bell rung, the children put their books away ____________ . 2) The children who won the game sang ________________. 3) The boy who won the writing competition wrote _______________. 4) The actors in the big hall spoke ___________________. You will have noticed that these adverbs all end in –ly. But it is not true that all adverbs end in –ly. There are three adverbs that we should look at that do not have the same ending: fast hard and well. These adverbs do not just end differently, but they are also difficult to use. The word fast can be used instead of quickly. 1) The girl walked fast. 2) The river is moving fast. 3) Slow down, you are walking too fast. The other word we shall look at is hard. 1) The top student in my class studies hard. 2) The rough boy hit his friend hard. 3) Learn to kick the ball hard. Remember that the word hardly exists but it does not mean the same thing as hard. It is therefore wrong to say that, “The top student in my class studies hardly” or “The rough boy hit his friend hardly”. Finally let us look at the word well. Use well when you mean that you are happy with what you are talking about. 1) Our football team plays well. 2) My students read well. 3) The school choir sang well. 4) I like this machine, it works well. The opposite of fast is slowly and that of hard is gently. The opposite of well is badly or poorly. Now use these opposites to make sentences of your own. A final word to remember, adverbs of manner have opposites, if you want to know your adverbs then you must learn each adverb and its opposite. I hope that you have enjoyed this lesson. Now practise writing your own sentences using all the adverbs that you have learned today.