The Adverb (Прислівник)

1. Прочитайте речення та підкресліть прислівники в них:

1. The pen is bad, it writes badly.

2. Here is a quiet place, you can work quietly there.

3. We must work hard in order to become good specialists.

4. We clearly see all the planets through a telescope.

5. Steel is heavier than aluminum.

6. Electricity has a wider use in industry than gas.

7. Metal is a more important building material than wood.

8. The stories by Jack London are more popular than those by Kipling.

9. The new motor is more powerful that the old one.

10. According to Einstein nothing can move faster than light.

2. Утворіть прислівники з наступних прикметників:

Pure, extreme, necessary, considerable, amazing, joint, whole, artificial, high, efficient, easy, bright, powerful, great, careless, aimless, clean, good, short, clever, silly, great, red black, white, thin, thick, fat, nice, warm, cold, merry, small, tall, high, weak, strong, heavy, light, green, dry, clean, dirty, wide, deep, brave.

3. Поставте прислівники на відповідне місце у реченні:

1. James reads to himself aloud (often).

2. I prefer swimming to rowing (very much).

3. The terrible noise ceased (after a while).

4. He disliked being kept waiting ( very much; long).

5. The old man remained deep in contemplation away (at once).

6. He lent me ten dollars, he couldn’t lend me more (often).

7. We caught sight of land (suddenly).

8. They came to a clearing in the forest (soon)

9. You have completed their order and will dispatch it (already; also).

10. She realized she was going in the wrong direction (quickly).

4. Поставте прислівники у дужках у вищий та найвищий ступінь:

1. He feels much (badly) today.

2. Now the ship was moving (slowly) than before the collision.

3. Which season do you like (well)?

4. The (much) you read, the (much) you know.

5. He has solved the problem (differently) than they.

6. This year he works (much) more at his English than he did last year.

7. He doesn’t speak so (fast) as you do.

8. They listened to the teacher (attentively).

9. I come home (late) on Mondays.

10. He did his work (much carefully).

5 Вставте відповідні прислівники: simply, fast, quietly, just, high, soon, today, still, also, usually, fine.

1. He walks … .

2. She will return … .

3 He would … do such a thing as that.

4. The sun is … going down.

5. The mouse peeped … out of its hole.

6. Mistakes are … made by careless people.

7. The child has … been ill with a cough.

8. The birds are singing ... all day.

9. The poor girl was crying … .

10. The tide is… rising.

6. Виберіть у дужках відповідне слово:

1. His heart was (deep, deeply) moved.

2. The tunnels of the Moscow metro are dug (deep, deeply) below the surface of the earth.

3. The idea seemed (high, highly) important to everybody.

4. The plane soared (high, highly) to get everything done as planned.

5. The mechanic (close, closely) examined the machine.

6. He approached me (closer, more closely) to hear me well.

7. He was (near, nearly) run over by the car.

8. He lives quite (near, nearly).

9. I have seen very little of him (late, lately).

10. You’ve come too (late, lately).

11. She always comes (pretty, prettily) dressed.

12. It is (pretty, prettily) difficult to speak to her.

13. Through a space in the trees I could see the house door; it was (wide, widely) open.

14. Nabokov’s works are (wide, widely) known throughout the world.

15. The station is (a long way off, far from) our house.

16. The scientist hasn’t come (else, yet).

17. My friend is (still, yet, else) here.

18. We walked (far from, a long way) yesterday.

19. The teacher can’t find his dictionaries (somewhere, anywhere, nowhere).

20. Where did you go after supper? – (somewhere, nowhere)

21. She was (deep, deeply) hurt by his words but didn’t say a word.

22. The coffee is (very much, very, too) hot to drink.

23. It is (near, nearly) 5 o’clock.

24. The Franc-Liberian railway is (longer, longest) than any other.

25. The twenty-second of December is (shorter, shortest) than other days.

26. The Neva is (wider, widest) and (deeper, deepest) that the Moskva River.

27. His plan is (more practical, most practical) than yours.

28. Silver is (heavier, heaviest) than copper.

29. Our house is (lower, lowest) than yours.

30. When the war ended, the reconstruction of Moscow was resumed on a (larger, largest) scale than before.

31. I couldn’t arrive (earlier, earliest) as I wasn’t allowed to drive (faster, fastest)

32. This woman should listen to her director (more attentively, most attentively).

33. This experiment should be carried out (more carefully, most carefully).