ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

Exercise 1. Choose one best option to complete each sentence below:

1. We lost the match because we didn’t play (good / well).
2. My father ……. speaks English. (hard / hardly).
3. Your English is very (good / well).
4. You speak English very (good / well).
5. Ann is a (careful / carefully) typist.
6. She types very (careful / carefully).
7. He is a (hard / hardly) worker. He works very (hard / hardly).
8. His health is (good / well).
9. How’s your father? ~ He’s very (good / well).
10. Don’t walk so fast. Can you walk more (slow / slowly)?
11. John is a very ( fast / fastly ) runner.
12. I never get up ( late/ lately).
13. ( Late/ Lately) I have been to London.
14. Your hand-writing is very ( bad/ badly).
15. She sings very ( bad/ badly).
Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the best adverb.
slowly carefully beautifully well loudly carelessly
easily excitedly finally suddenly quickly quietly
1. Come here ____________. You have to see this!
2. We knew that she had got the job when we saw her _________ talking on the phone.
3. He ______________ put the vase on the table. It fell to the floor.
4. Sharon is throwing a party on Saturday. She ___________ finished her PhD.
5. Let's walk ________________. I don't want to be the first one at the meeting.
6. Alex _____________ put up the bookshelves. It was too difficult for me to do on my own.
7. Every thing happened so ______________. We had to move to California in less than a month.
8. Why does he always have to talk so ____________. You can hear him in the next room!
9. Although she speaks five languages, she did not do ___________ on the translation exam.
10. I was so surprised. His new apartment was _____________ decorated.

Exercise 3: Complete the sentence using an adjective or adverb.

1. He's always in a rush. I don't understand why he walks so ____________ (quick/quickly).
2. I prefer studying in the library. It's always_______________ (quiet/quietly).
3. Michael __________ (happy/happily) took the assistant job. He had been looking for a position all
summer.
4. Marta dances _____________ (beautiful/beautifully). She's been taking ballet since she was five years
old.
5. They speak French very ____________ (good/well). They lived in France for two years.
6. My neighbor always plays ___________ (loud/loudly) music on the weekends. It's so annoying.
7. Please be __________ (careful/carefully) in the hallway. The walls have just been painted.
8. Dan is very smart, but he is not a very___________ (good/well) student.
9. He reacted __________ (angry/angrily) to the news. I have never seen him so upset.
10. We didn't ______________ (complete/completely) understand the teacher's instructions. Most of us
did not finish the assignment.
EXERCISE 4.
1. "I don’t think John looks well".
"He seems_____".
a. fairly tired b. fair tired c. fair tiredly d. fairly tiredly
2. "Which do you prefer - the blue china or the white china?"
"The white china is_____".
a. definite better b. better definite c. better definitely d. definitely better
3. "Were you pleased with the translation?"
"Yes, the job was_____"
a. amazing satisfactory b. amazingly satisfactory
c. amazing satisfactorily d. satisfactory amazing
4. "What was you impression of last night's lecture?"
"_____ speaking, I thought it was rather boring".
a. Honest b. Honestly c. Very d. Really
5. "How tall is Ralph?". - "He's ____ than you are".
a. slight tall b. slight taller c. slightly tall d. slightly taller
6. "How does Amy like her new school?"
"Fine. And she's doing_____ in her courses"
a. extreme good b. extremely well c. extremely good d. extreme well
7. What a nice fire you have in your fireplace"
"During the winter I like my house_____".
a. warmly and comfortable b. warm and comfortable
c. warm and comfortably d. warmly and comfortably
8. "This perfume is very expensive".
"Yes, but it smells_____".
a. exceptional good b. exceptionally good
c. exceptionally well d. exceptional well
9. "Your son seems to be an excellent skier"
"They say he's_____ for his age".
a. surprisingly competent b. surprising competent
c. competently surprising d. surprising competently
10. "I had a hard time taking notes on the lecture"
"I did too. The professor speaks_____".
a. exceeding fast b. exceedingly fastly
c. exceedingly fast d. with exceedingly fastness
11. "Do you think Margaret will take the job you offered her?"
"I don’t know. She seemed_____ in it, however".
a interest b. interesting c. interested d. interestingly
12. "The students all went to the circus yesterday."
"I heard it was really_____."
a. amused b. amusing c. amuse d. amusingly
13. "I was_____ that Jan couldn't come to the party".
"Her boss made her work overtime".
a. disappointing b. disappointedly c. disappoint d. disappointed
14. "What a terrible football game!".
"I thought it was_____".
 a. delightful b. delighting c. delight d. delighted
15. "How_____ we are to hear that you got the scholarship”.
"Thank you. It was really a surprise".
a. pleasing b. pleased c. pleasingly d. please
16. "Professors Allen's class is the best I have ever been to".
"I think it's_____".
a. the most boring b. the most boringly c. the most bored d. most bored
17. "I can’t believe that Jim is marrying the vice-president's daughter".
"That they would get married is_____".
a. surprised b. surprising c. surprisingly d. surprise
18. "This handmade cloth is beautiful"
"To see such quality is_____"
a. pleasing b. please c pleased d. so pleasanty
19. "How does Jan like her new car?"
"She's _____ with it".
a. delighted b. delighting c. delight d. delightful
20. "You look nervous"
"This thunder makes me_____"
a. scary b. scare c. scaring d. scared
Exercise 5: Choose the best answer among A, B, C, D to complete each sentence:
1. It is cheap. It’s _____ (expensive)
A. expensive B. unexpensive C. inexpensive D. expensively
2. Most of us would maintain that physical _____ does not play major part in how we react to the people we
meet.
A. attract B. attractive C. attractiveness D. attractively
3. The Internet is one of the most important _____ of our life.
A. invent B. invention C. inventing D. inventions
4. The woman is carrying a(n) _____ bag.
A. large old green plastic B. old large green plastic
C. old large plastic green D. plastic old large green
5. Mrs. Pike was so angry that she made a _____ gesture at the driver.
A. rude B. rudeness C. rudely D. rudest
6. WHO’s main activities are carrying out research on medical _____ and improving international health care.
A. develop B. developing C. development D. develops
7. We bought some_____ glasses.
A. German lovely old B. old lovely German C. lovely old German D. German old lovely
8. We saw _____ girls there.
A. beauty B. beautiful C. beautifully D. Beautify
9. She is a _____ girl.
A. communicate B. communicative C. communication D. communications
10. The elderly person whose family moves to a new city may find it _____ to make friends of similar age.
A. particularly hard B. particular, hard C. hardly particular D. hard, particularly
11. Everyone has their _____ which are hardly recognized by themselves.
A. limit B. limited C. limitation D. limitations
12. In the kitchen there is a _____ table.
A. beautiful large round wooden B. large beautiful wooden round
 C. wooden round large beautiful D. round large wooden beautiful
13. Since her _____ the room has been full of laughter.
A. arrival B. arrive C. arriver D. arriveness
14. Visitors to the local museum are mostly attracted by _____ rocking chair.
A. an old wooden European beautiful B. a beautiful old European wooden
C. an old beautiful wooden European D. a wooden old beautiful European
15. We need further _____
A. inform B. information C. informal D. informative
16. After the new technique had been introduced, the factory produced _____ cars in 2014 as the year before.
A. as many twice B. twice as many C. as twice many D. twice many as
17. Indiana University, one of the largest in the nation, is located in a _____ town.
A. small beautiful Midwestern B. beautiful Midwestern small
C. Midwestern beautiful small D. beautiful small Midwestern
18. Jack’s father bought him a(n) _____ bike as a birthday gift.
A. blue Japanese expensive B. expensive Japanese blue
C. Japanese expensive blue D. expensive blue Japanese
19. Her husband bought her _____ when he went on holiday in Singapore last week.
A. a beautiful silk yellow scarf B. a beautiful yellow silky scarf
C. a beautiful yellow scarf silk D. a beautiful yellow silk scarf
20. This is a picture of a _____ bus.
A. red bright London B. bright red London
C. London bright red D. London red bright
21. It is really an _____.
A. undergraduate interesting economics course B. economics course interesting undergraduate
C. interesting economics undergraduate course D. interesting undergraduate economics course
22. It is a _____.
A. polyester sleeping blue bag B. blue sleeping polyester bag
C. blue polyester sleeping bag D. sleeping blue polyester bag
23. He used all his _____ to force the door open.
A. strong B. strengths C. strength D. strengthen
24. Fruits’ festival in Suoi Tien Park is a very _____ activity.
A. joy B. joyous C. joyful D. B&C
25. It’s her _____ obligation to tell the police what she knows.
A. immoral B. moral C. morality D. morally
26. This plant’s _____ is high, so it attracts a lot of investment.
A. production B. productivity C. products D. produce
27. She sent me a _____ letter thanking me for my invitation.
A. polite B. politely C. politeness D. impoliteness
28. There used to be _____ in this area but now, they are all demolished.
A. tow factories big B. two big factories C. big two factories D. big factories two
29. They had a _____ candlelit dinner last night and she accepted his proposal of marriage.
A. romance B. romantic C. romantically D. romanticize
30. Most psychologists agree that the basic structure of an individual’s personality is _____.
A. by the age of five it is quite well established B. quite well established by the age of five
C. well established quite by the age of five D. by the age of five and quite well established