Adverbs Vamos estudar os advérbios da gramática inglesa. Para dizermos como alguém faz algo, usamos um advérbio: Como ele dirige? Ele dirige cuidadosamente. How does he drive? He drives carefully. Veja como formamos um advérbio de um adjetivo: Um motorista cuidadoso - A careful driver. careful - cuidadoso carefully - cuidadosamente Regular adverbs: quick - quickly bad - badly easy - easily immediate - immediately etc Irregular adverbs: good - well hard - hard fast - fast Exercises 1 Match a verb or phrase in A with an adverb in B. a run work dance speak two languages do your homework b hard beautifully fluently carefully fast 2 Put the word in brackets in the correct place in the sentence. If necessary, change the adjective to an adverb. a Mary dances. (good) ______________________________________________________________ b When I saw the accident, I phoned the police. (immediate) ______________________________________________________________ c Please speak. I can't understand you. (slow) ______________________________________________________________ d Don't worry. Justin is a driver. (careful) ______________________________________________________________ e Jean-Pierre is a Frenchman. He loves food, wine and rugby. (typical) ______________________________________________________________ f We had a test today. (easy) ______________________________________________________________ g We all passed. (easy) ______________________________________________________________ h You speak English. (good) ______________________________________________________________ i We had a holiday in Spain, but unfortunately we had weather. (terrible) ______________________________________________________________ home |