English Grammar Exercises – Adjectives and adverbs

1. Choose the correct alternative.

From: Misha Kissin
To: Natasha Tchistyakova
Subject: Language school

Dear Natasha,

Well, here I am in England. Thank you for your (1) kind / kindly letter. You ask me what it’s like here. I must say, it’s pretty (2) good / well!

The language school is very (3) efficient / efficiently organised. On the first morning we had to do a test, which I found rather (4) hard / hardly. However I got a (5) surprising / surprisingly good mark, so I’m in the top class. I didn’t talk much at first, because I couldn’t think of the words (6) quick / quickly enough, but (7) late / lately I’ve become much more (8) fluent / fluently.

I’m staying with a family who live (9) near / nearly the school. They are quite (10) pleasant / pleasantly, although I don’t see much of them because I’m always so (11) busy / busily with my friends from school. I was surprised how (12) easy / easily I made new friends here. The students come from (13) different / differently parts of the world and we have some (14) absolute / absolutely fascinating discussions.

I do hope you will be able to join me here next term. I’m sure we’d have (15) good / well fun together.

All the best,

Misha

P.S. Aren’t you impressed at how (16) accurate / accurately my English is now?!

2. There are mistakes in seven of these sentences. Correct the sentences where necessary. Write ‘OK’ if the sentence is already correct.

1   ‘Please get a move on!’ shouted Travis impatient.

       …shouted Travis impatiently……

2   I believe she is a very lonely woman.

      …OK……

3   I didn’t like his plan, which seemed unnecessary complicated to me.

4   I’m sure you could win the match if you tried hardly.

5   I have an awful headache, so could you please be quiet?

6   Sonya’s only been in France a year, but she speaks perfectly French.

7   The reason Ed gets so tired is that he has an exceptional demanding job.

8   My mother was ill last year, but she’s good enough to go on holiday now.

9   David ran as fast as he could, but he still arrived late.

10   Jen always says she’s short of money, but I happen to know she actually has a very good-paid job.