Level: beginner
Adverbs of manner are usually formed from adjectives by adding –ly:
| bad > badly | quiet > quietly | sudden > suddenly |
but sometimes there are changes in spelling:
| easy > easily | gentle > gently | careful > carefully |
The adverb formed from good is well:
You speak English very well.
Adverbs of manner normally come after the verb:
He spoke angrily.
or after the object:
He opened the door quietly.
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- Adverbials of manner 2
Level: intermediate
If an adjective already ends in -ly, we use the phrase in a …. way to express manner:
silly: He behaved in a silly way.
friendly: She spoke in a friendly way.
A few adverbs of manner have the same form as the adjective:
They all worked hard.
She usually arrives late/early.
I hate driving fast.
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hardly and lately have different meanings from hard and late:
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We often use phrases with like as adverbials of manner:
She slept like a baby.
He ran like a rabbit.
Adverbials of manner and link verbs
We very often use adverbials with like after link verbs:
Her hands felt like ice.
It smells like fresh bread.
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We do not use adverbs of manner after link verbs. We use adjectives instead:
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Dear Sir
I have already checked but I couldn,t find an answer.
Thank you.
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Srilal
Hello Srilal,
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Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Thanks for the examples. How can I explain the difference between the Adjective is this sentence
5. Let’s get the later bus, at 10.45. We don’t want to arrive at the airport too
early
and the adverb of manner?
Thanks
Hello Ola SABBAGH,
I'm not sure I understand your question, to be honest. Adjectives describe nouns; they give us information about people and things. Adverbs of manner describe actions; they tell us how something was done. The difference is in the roles they have in the sentence, grammatically speaking.
Perhaps if you provide two sentences, one with an adjective and one with an adverb of manner it will help to clarify.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Thank you so much for work.
Hello
firstly i would like to thank you again for your great usual support and effort
please i need to know why did you use greedily instead of greedy in one of your test question above
"the hungry cat looked greedily at the kitchen on the dinner table "
for me looked is a link verb so we should use adjective instead of adverb
Hello hamadbaghdadi,
In this sentence, 'looked' is not a link verb, but rather an action verb. 'greedily' is an adverb that modifies, i.e. tells us more about the way the cat was looking at the chicken (is that what you meant instead of 'kitchen'?). If 'looked' were a link verb here, the sentence would be something like 'The cat looked hungry and greedy as it looked at the chicken ...'.
Best wishes,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello there,
Could you please tell which one is the correct?
I went to shop on Monday by car to get some things for reselling.
I went to shop by car on Monday to get some things for reselling.
The bus hit a tree in a road on Monday with a great force.
The bus hit a tree with a great force in a road on Monday.
The meeting will be started at the hotel on Monday at 5.00 PM.
The meeting well be started at the hotel at 5.00 PM on Monday.
Hello hrnmno,
The word order of these sentences is not fixed, so there is no one correct sequence. However, there are some other problems:
I went to a/the shop on Monday by car to get some things for reselling.
I went to a/the shop by car on Monday to get some things for reselling.
The bus hit a tree in the road on Monday with great force.
The bus hit a tree with great force in the road on Monday.
The meeting will start at the hotel on Monday at 5.00 PM.
The meeting will start at the hotel at 5.00 PM on Monday.
The use of articles is context-dependent, but these are the most likely choices.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello! Could you please explain me the meaning of the phrase ''link verb''. Thank you.
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