The adverb

Exercise 554. Frequency adverbs. Complete each sentence with an appro­priate frequency adverb from the list: rarely, never, always, usually, often, seldom, sometimes.

1. I see one or two films every week. I ... go to the movies. 2. I let my roommate borrow my car one time last year. I ... let my roommate borrow my car. 3. Maria eats cereal for breakfast seven days a week. Maria ... eats cereal for breakfast. 4. Four or five visitors to the museum stay for three hours or longer. Museum visitors ... stay for at least three hours. 5. We occasionally have quizzes in Dr. Jacobs's history class. Dr. Jacobs ... gives quizzes in his­tory class. 6. If the teacher is on time, the class begins at 8:00 a.m. Once in a while, the teacher is a few minutes late. The class ... begins at 8:00 a.m. 7. In the desert, it rains only two days between May and September every year. It ... rains there in the summer. 8. James asks me to go to the sailboat races every year, but I don't accept his invitation because I think sailboat races are boring. I ... go to sailboat races with James. 9. Every time I go to a movie, I buy popcorn. I ... buy popcorn when I go to a movie. 10. Andy and Jake are friends. They go out to dinner at least three times a week. Andy and Jake ... go out to dinner with each other. 11. Andy and Jake do business with each other every once in a while. Most of the time they don't discuss business when they go out to dinner with each other. They ... discuss business during dinner.

Exercise 555. Write down the degrees of comparison of the following adverbs.

1. late

2. well

3. badly

4. early

5. carefully

6. quietly

7. fast

8. gaily

9. happily

10. clearly

11. clearly

12. slowly

13. widely

14. highly

15. quickly

16. perfectly

Exercise 556. Answer the questions using the comparative degree of the adverbs.

1. Does Peter drive the car as carefully as Tom?

2. Does a taxi run as fast as bus?

3. Did Jane speak as calmly as Helen?

4. Did you come as late as your brother?

5. Does Nick speak English as slowly as Peter?

6. Does Susan speak French as well as her mother?

7. Does Harry get up as early as his father?

8. Does Jack do his grammar exercises as carelessly as he did last year?

Exercise 557. Choose the right word.

1. I opened the door (slowly, slow)

2. Bill is a (careful, carefully) driver

3. Can you repeat that (slow, slowly)?

4. The party was very (good, well)

5. Our team played very (well, good)

6. She left (sudden, suddenly)

Exercise 558. Choose the proper word from the brackets.

1. She looks (nice, nicely) in her new dress.

2. Everything is all right with the little girl; she looks (gay, gaily) and (cheerful, cheerfully) again.

3. She looked (sad, sadly) at me and turned away.

4. What's the matter with you? You look so (sad, sadly).

5. The girl looked (helpless, helplessly) about.

6. The woman looked (helpless, helplessly).

7. She looked (pleasant, pleasantly) and made everybody feel at ease.

8. She looked (pleasant, pleasantly) at the little girl.

9. The girl looked (happy, happily) at her father, but the father looked (angry, angrily).

10. Father looked (stern, sternly) at me and I felt unhappy.

11. The car stopped (right, rightly) in the middle of the road.

12. Is your English (good, well)?

13. How many people were there at the (last, least) meeting?

14. I like your hat. It looks (good, well) on you.

15. Their son gives them the (last, least) trouble.

16. She feels (bad, badly) today.

17. The soup tastes (good, well).

18. She usually feels (lazy, lazily) in hot weather.

19. She cooks (bad, badly).

20. There was a (bright, brightly) fire in the room.

21. Does he speak (quiet, quietly)?

22. The table feels (smooth, smoothly).

Exercise 559. Choose between an adjective and an adverb.

1. The birds flew (low, lowly), almost touching the water with their wings.

2. He is a (good, well) driver; he always drives very (careful, carefully).

3. (Most, mostly) students he is friendly with are from her place.

4. If she can jump that (high, highly) she'll win the prize.

5. It's (near, nearly) eleven o'clock. It's time for you to go to bed.

6. Why are you walking so (slow, slowly)? What's the matter?

7. We studied (hard, hardly) before the exam,

8. He looked (anxious, anxiously) around.

9. Are you (careful, carefully) while driving?

10. My brother began in a (low, lowly) position at the bank.

11. The students with whom she studies are (most, mostly) from Belarus.

12. Few people are (high, highly) paid in this firm.

13. It was clever of him to make such a (near, nearly) translation.

14. They treated the boy (bad, badly) in their house.

15. When he began his journey he could (hard, hardly) crawl along.

16. She is very (slow, slowly) at understanding things.

17. I am very (anxious, anxiously) to leave as early as possible.

18. He has (regular, regularly) working hours.

19.The flower smells (pleasant, pleasantly).

20. The train goes (fast, fastly).

21. The meat tastes (bad, badly).

22. Is your brother an (excellent, excellently) painter?