Name:

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Adverb or Adjective?
Directions: Circle the item that will best complete the sentence from the choices in the
parentheses.

1. He (correct, correctly) defined the terms. The answer sounded (correctly, correct).

2. She (quickly, quick) adjusted the fees. She adapted (quick, quickly) to any situation.

3. He measured the floor (exact, exactly). They proved to be (perfectly, perfect) (exact,

exactly) measurements.

4. It was a (dangerously, dangerous) lake to swim in. The man was (dangerous,

dangerously) drunk. The gas smelled (dangerously,dangerous).

5. She performed (magnificent, magnificently). It was a (magnificent, magnificently)

beautiful performance.

7. Her voice sounds (beautifully, beautiful). She sang the song (exact, exactly) as it was

written. We heard it (perfectly, perfect).

8. He was a very (sensibly, sensible) person. He acted very (sensible, sensibly).

9. Mike wrote too (slow, slowly) on the exam. He always writes (slow, slowly).

10. Talk (softly, soft) or don't talk at all. The music played (softly, soft).

11. Andrea knows the material very (good, well). She always treats us (good, well).

12. You must send payments (regular, regularly). We deal on a (strictly, strict) cash

basis.

13. The mechanic's tools were (well, good). The foreman said that his work was (good,

well) done.

14. She worked (careful, carefully) with the sick child. She was a very (careful,

carefully) worker.

15. He did not pass the course as (easy, easily) as he thought he would.

16. I find this novel very (interesting, interestingly). It was (interesting, interestingly)

written.

Exercise 1: Choose the best answer:

1. Which is the correct order?
A. a small Canadian thin lady C. a small thin Canadian lady
B. a Canadian small thin lady D. a thin small Canadian lady
2. Which is the correct order?
A. a carving steel new knife D. a new carving steel knife
B. a new steel carving knife
C. a steel new carving knife
3. Which is the correct order?
A. a beautiful blue sailing boat C. a sailing beautiful blue boat
B. a blue beautiful sailing boat D. a blue sailing beautiful boat
4. Which is the correct order?
A. an old wooden square table C. an old square wooden table
B. a square wooden old table D. a wooden old square table
5. Which is the correct order?
A. an new French exciting band C. an exciting French new band
B. a French new exciting band D. an exciting new French band
6. Which is the correct order?
A. a red big plastic hat D. a bit plastic red hat
B. a big red plastic hat
C. a plastic big red hat
7. Which is the correct order?
A. a small Japanese serving bowl C. a small serving Japanese bowl
B. a Japanese small serving bowl D. a serving small Japanese bowl
8. Which is the correct order?
A. a cotton dirty old tie C. an old cotton dirty tie
B. a dirty cotton old tie D. a dirty old cotton tie
Exercise 2: Give the correct order:
1. round small reading lamp
2. German old yellow car
3. wooden huge sailing ship
4. physics boring old teacher
5. slim Canadian handsome snowboarder
6. sugar blue round bowl
Exercise 3: Choose the best answer:
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
A. dirty old flannel B. flannel old dirty C. old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
A. plastic big blue C. big plastic blue
B. big blue plastic
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
A. handsome new American C. new handsome American
B. American new handsome
4. I used to drive ________ car.
A. a blue old German B. an old German blue C. an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman.
A. young beautiful Greek B. beautiful young Greek C. beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie.
A. new Italian wonderful B. wonderful Italian new C. wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel.
A. beautiful slim Brazilian B. Brazilian beautiful slim C. slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container.
A. large blue metal B. blue large metal C. blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
A. big wooden brown
B. big brown wooden
C. wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
A. small Egyptian black
B. black Egyptian small
C. small black Egyptian