Unit 8: Adjectives and Adverbs II


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


                                                 A

                                           surprisingly

                                               badly

                                           commercially

                                               well

                                              totally

                                             terribly








                                                 B

                                             qualified

                                              quickly

                                             designed

                                              viable

                                               good

                                              illegal


1 She has a PhD and an MBA so she’s certainly very ______________.

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 give 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.


2 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.


3 Complete the sentences with following words. Use some word more than once.

DIRECT - DIRECTLY – FAST - FASTER – HARD – HARDLY  – NEAR - NEARLY – LATE - LATELY – SHORT -
SHORTLY


1        He's lazy. He ______ ever works.

2        She works ______ all day without stopping.

3        I live ______ to John. Only 5 minutes away.

4        I've ______ finished my work.

5        I like driving ______ but it is dangerous.

6        You are too slow. You need to work _____ .

7        Mr Johnson will be with you ______. Please take a seat.

8        There will be a ______ delay as the in-coming aircraft was late.

9        Is there a ______ flight or will I have to change?

10     You can fly ______ but there is only one non-stop flight per day.

11     It's 10 o'clock. He's very ______. Where can he be?

12     My plane arrived ______. I'm sorry.

13     I haven't seen him ______.