Grammar Test
Adverbs
Task 1. Choose the correct word (adjectives or adverb).
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You speak German perfect/perfectly – just like a native.
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Please talk quiet/quietly. I don’t want to wake up the baby.
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Don’t drive so quick/quickly. It’s dangerous.
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In summer it hard/hardly rains at all in this part of the country.
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Please don’t be angry/angrily with me.
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It’s about midnight and I’m near/nearly asleep.
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He plays the guitar good/well.
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The music is too loud/loudly. We can’t talk.
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His English is very good/well.
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Her friend’s brother lives near/nearly, in the same neighbourhood.
Task 2. Complete the sentences.
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I was _____tired. The porridge tastes ____(awful/awfully)
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She cried______. This coffee tastes ____(bitter/bitterly)
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Those flowers look ______. She sings ____(beautiful/beautifully)
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Your tape recorder sounds ______. The boy cooked _______(wonderful/wonderfully)
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This cake smells_____. That was a ____creamy soup (delicious/deliciously)
Task 3. Change the adjectives into adverbs or adverbial phrases in the following sentences.
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She’s a hard worker. She works _____.
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My sister is a good cook. She cooks _____.
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He’s a fast runner. He runs _____.
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She’s glad to help. She helps _____.
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This restaurant isn’t far away from here. We don’t have to go ____.
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Don’t be so unfriendly! Don’t look at me ____.
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He’s a quick thinker. He thinks _____.
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Be careful! Act ______!
Task 4. Fill in each space in the following sentences with appropriate adverb using the words day, soft, good, occasion, early, beauty, month, easy, careful, noise
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The orchestra played the symphony _____, I thought.
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John spoke so______ I could hardly hear him.
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Hold the baby______, please.
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The children played _____in their room and kept their father awake.
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In Britain, some people have their newspapers delivered_______.
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The magazine is published _____so we get twelve issues a year.
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I go to the theatre _____ - I just don’t have the time to go there often.
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You could ____pass the test with a bit more work.
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Come _____if you want to find a good seat.
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I hope you do _____in your driving test.
Task 5. Rewrite these sentences in the correct order.
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The children play / after lunch / quietly / in the garden.
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We work / on Sunday / in the studio / hard.
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He drinks / in the morning / his coffee / quickly.
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I do / very carefully / in the evening / my homework.
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It snows/ in the north of Scotland / heavily / in winter.
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Our friends go dancing / at weekends / to a disco club / occasionally.