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Los adverbios de modo sealan cmo se realiza la accin indicada por el verbo.
Muchos se forman partiendo del adjetivo y agregando "-ly". Si el adjetivo termina con "y", se
cambia por "ily". Si termina en "ble", se cambia por "bly". Si termina en "ic", se agrega "ally".
sudden (rpido) - suddenly (rpidamente)
She came back home suddenly.
Volvi a la casa rpidamente.
happy (feliz) - happily (felizmente)
The dog wags its tail happily.
El perro mueve felizmente la cola.
possible (posible) - possibly (posiblemente)
You will possibly arrive late.
Posiblemente llegues tarde.
basic (bsico) - basically (bsicamente)
Basically, you have to do this.
Bsicamente, debes hacer esto.
Algunos adjetivos pueden no modificarse cuando se convierten en adverbios.
This train goes fast.
Este tren va rpido.
I work hard.
Trabajo mucho.
Muchas veces en lugar de usar una sola palabra se forman frases que comienzan con preposicin.
Jim goes to school by bus.
Jim va a la escuela en autobs.
Exercise: In the following sentences put in each space the adverb made from the adjective
in brackets.
absolutely
noisily
Adjective or adverb
badly
beautiful
different
easily
We have got a lot of __________________ pupils in our class. Here are some of them:
Sally is a ___________________________ girl and she plays the guitar very
_________________________. The boys think Sandra is even _____________________
and she is _______________________, too. But the girls think she is ________________
because she always talks so clever and she plays volleyball ________________________.
She cannot swim ______________________ enough and she always does what the
teachers tell her. But everybody likes Pat because she sings _______________________.
And she plays the saxophone even more ______________________________. The most
___________________________ pupil is Cindy. She is tall, good looking and all the boys
fall in love with her ___________________________. She is very clever and she doesn't
talk as _________________________ as a lot of our other girl.
Adjective or adverb