Forming Adverbs from Adjectives
quick → quickly, easy → easily, good → well. The -ly rules and the exceptions.
ගොඩක් adverbs හදන්නේ adjective එකට අගට -ly එකතු කරලා: quick → quickly. ඒත් good හි adverb එක well. fast, hard වගේ වචන වෙනස් වෙන්නේම නෑ.
The spelling rules
| Adjective ends in… | Rule | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| most adjectives | add -ly | quick → quickly, slow → slowly, careful → carefully |
| -y | -y → -ily | easy → easily, happy → happily, lucky → luckily |
| -le (incl. -able, -ible) | -e → -y | gentle → gently, terrible → terribly, possible → possibly |
| -ic | add -ally | basic → basically, automatic → automatically (but public → publicly) |
| -ll | add -y | full → fully |
good → well
good or well?
- He's a good student.adjective
- He studies well.adverb
- They're good swimmers.adjective
- They swim well.adverb
Words that don't change
These are the same as adjectives and adverbs: fast, hard, early, late, high, low, straight, far, wrong.
Same word
- It's a fast bike.adjective
- He rides fast.adverb
- That's a hard question.adjective
- She works hard.adverb
- We left early.adverb
-ly words that are adjectives
A few words end in -ly but are adjectives: friendly, lovely, lonely, ugly, silly, elderly. They have no adverb form, so say in a friendly way.
-ly adjectives
- She's a very friendly person.
- He smiled at us in a friendly way.
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