Some adverbs tell us how an action is or should be performed.
Often these adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the end of an adjective.
Adjectives ending -l add -ly ; careful-carefully.
Adjectives ending -y change to -ily ; lucky-luckily
Adjectives ending -ble change to -bly ; responsible-responsibly
adjective
|
adverb
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|---|---|
anxious
|
anxiously
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bad
|
badly
|
beautiful
|
beautifully
|
capable
|
capably
|
lucky
|
luckily
|
quick
|
quickly
|
weak
|
weakly
|
For example:
The
little girl ran quickly. In this sentence quickly modifies the verb ran (to run).