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Formation of Adverbs

             Adverbs are mostly formed by adding  ‘-ly’ to the adjectives.

             Read the following examples:
                  Happy – Happily                     Lucky – Luckily               Smooth – Smoothly

                  Truth – Truthfully                  Free – Freely                 Abrupt – Abruptly
                  Nice – Nicely                       Light – Lightly               Obvious – Obviously









             A.  Fill in the blanks with the suitable adverbs.
                  1.  She is ______________ the right person for the job.

                  2.  Karan drives ______________ on the busy road.
                  3.  He was injured  ______________.

                  4.  She waited for the Principal ______________.

                  5.  You can see lots of flowers ______________.
             B.  Pick out the adverbs in the following sentences and write its types.

                  1.  I have never visited Kerala.

                       ________________________________________________________________________
                  2.  The train reaches Kolkata in the morning.

                       ________________________________________________________________________

                  3.  Fortunately, his initial answer was favourable.
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                  4.  He feels neglected sometimes.

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                  5.  She has never done diving.

                       ________________________________________________________________________

             C.  Rewrite the following sentences using adverbs.

                  1.  Shruti is a soft hearted girl.
                       ________________________________________________________________________

                  2.  Karuna writes with a nice handwriting.

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