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Grammar Elementary

Grammar Elementary. Adverbs of manner. Form. We can form this type of adverb by adding – ly to an adjective : quick → quick ly bad → bad ly shy → shy ly quiet → quiet ly careful → careful ly. Form.

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Grammar Elementary

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  1. Grammar Elementary Adverbs of manner

  2. Form • Wecanformthis type of adverb by adding–lyto anadjective: quick→quickly bad→badly shy → shyly quiet → quietly careful→ carefully

  3. Form • Adjectives of more thanonesyllableending in –ychangethe–y to –i and add–ly: heavy→ heavily happy → happily noisy→ noisily thirsty → thirstily

  4. Form • Adjectivesending in –bleremovethe–e andadd–y: reasonable→ reasonably expectable → expectably formidable→ formidably impossible → impossibly

  5. Form • Adjectivesending in –icremoveadd–ally: dramatic→ dramatically fantastic → fantastically majestic→ majestically academic → academically tragic → tragically

  6. Form • Theadjectivegooddoes not followthe–lyrule. • Itsrelatedadverbiswell. He is a goodfootballplayer. He playsfootballwell.

  7. Note • Someadverbs and adjectives are thesame. • Fast, hard, early, late, high, low, right, wrong. Itis a fast car. This car isgoingfast. He isanearlybird. He getsupearly.

  8. Note • Someadjectives end in –ly are not adverbs: lovely, friendly, silly, lonely... • To make anadverbsfrom these adjectiveswesayin alovely/ in afriendly… He wastalkingin a sillyway. Theydancedin a lovelymanner.

  9. Confusion • Oneadverbthatcausesconfusionishardly. • Themeaning of theadverbis: almost not. • Itisusedbefore a verb. I’m sorry. I hardlyknow her. = I almost do not know her.

  10. Usage • Look at these sentences: 1) The boy isbad. (adjective) 2) Thisis a bad boy. (adjective) 3) The boy behavesbadly. (adverb)

  11. Word order • Beforeorafter verb: He readcarefullybecausetheletterwasveryimportant. Shequietlycameintothebedroom. • Afteranobjectifthereisone: Marina playsthe piano well. He waslooking on her shyly.

  12. Literatura CLARKE, S. MacmillanEnglish Grammar In ContextEssential. 1. vyd. Oxford: Macmillan Publisher Ltd, 2008. ISBN 978-1-5040-7049-2. MURPHY, R. Essential Grammar in Use. 3. vyd. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-67543-7.

  13. Writepresentsimplesentences and adverbs: • You/type/slow. • They/cook/good. • Cindy/eat/quick. • She/getup/early. • I/complain/loud. • They/write/academic

  14. Děkujiza pozornost.

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