Unit 8: Adjectives and Adverbs II


1 Fill in the blanks with words from the box. Make any changes to the adjectives necessary to form
adverbs.

economic

        hard

            heavy

                 late

                     patient

                            public

                                  punctual

                                          quarter

                                                 safe

                                                     silent

1 When you get to New York, give me a ring to let me know you've arrived ___________.

2 The Economic Review is published ____________  and comes out in March, June, September, and
December.

3 Trains in Japan arrive so_____________ that you can set your watch by them.

4 The train to the airport arrived_____________ and as a result I very nearly missed the plane.

5 Most stockbrokers will buy and sell shares in____________ -quoted companies.

6 Before privatization, many nationalized industries were _____________  subsidized by the
government.

7 He was not in a hurry, so he waited____________ until the client was ready to see him.

8 The new motor is very quiet, and at most speeds it operates almost _____________.



2 Choose a word from box A and one from box B to complete the sentences.


                                                                                                  A

surprisingly

badly

commercially

[DEL: well :DEL]

totally

terribly








                                                                                                  B

[DEL: qualified :DEL]

quickly

designed

viable

good

illegal



1 She has a PhD and an MBA so she's certainly very well qualified.

2 The results at the end of the year were ___________________________ and certainly much better
than we had thought.

3 The bank decided that the project was not _________________________________ so they refused to
given them a loan.

4 Insider dealing is________________________________ – if they catch you, you could go to prison.

5 The engine on the XR86 was very________________________________ and the car soon gained a
reputation for unreliability.

6 He spoke________________________________ , so I couldn't really understand what he was saying.


3 Choose either an adjective or an adverb from the words in italics.

  1 Their new offices in the city look very impressive/impressively.

  2 It's a pity that airline food never tastes as good/well as it looks.

  3 He reacted calm/calmly when I told him the bad news.

  4 The new perfume from Dior smells very expensive/expensively.

  5 We stopped ordering from them, because a lot of their products were bad/badly designed.

  6 They've changed the clocks, so now it gets dark/darkly at about 3.00 in the afternoon.

  7 Waiter, could you bring us some more milk – this tastes sour/sourly.

  8 Your new secretary seems very competent/competently.

  9 Most policy decisions are taken at head office, but day-to-day decisions are taken
local/locally.

10 When I spoke to Jeremy, he didn't sound confident/confidently about meeting this year's targets.