Hey! you know what, this morning my car broke down and I had to take a lift from my friend.
Well, but he drives so slowly that it took forever for me to get to the workplace.
Welcome Everyone I am Niharika and in today's lesson we are gonna learn how to form adverbs.
Now probably most of us know how to form adverbs but many at times when we try to write adverbs
we make spelling errors. So in this lesson we are going to look at some tips for us to
form adverbs and also to form them correctly. SO lets get started. This first thing that
you need to know is the meaning of an adverb. So what exactly are adverbs? Well adverbs
describe verbs. SO basically adverbs describe actions. For example I eat slowly, my dog
runs quickly. Okay, so slowly, quickly are describing the action. So, therefore slowly
and quickly are your adverbs. Also, we need to understand that, adverbs are formed from
adjectives. Okay, so you need to keep in mind that always the adverbs are formed from adjectives.
So now lets have a look at some rules that would help you to form adverbs. SO let's get
started. Now the very first basic rule is that you
need to add the letters 'ly' to an adjective and there you get your adverb. So lets look
at some examples here. Now all these words that are listed are adjectives. Now how do
we form the adverbs out of these adjectives, well let's learn. So we have the word quick
so very simple you need to add the letter 'ly' to the word quick. So quickly is your
adverbs, that's simple right! Lets have a look at another adjective which
is sudden, For sudden, the adverb will be suddenly. Another adjective that I have for
you is nice. So here that's your adverb , we add the letter 'ly' to the end of an adjective.
Another one politely. And then we have words like special and we have true , due and full.
Now here just make a note, whenever adjectives or the words that end with the letter 'l'
or with letter 'e' we of course end up adding the letter 'ly' to form an adverb, but there
are few exceptions. SO the exceptions are like for example the adjective true. Well,
if you look at the spelling its true, it ends with the letter e however the adverb spelling is truly. So you need
to delete the letter 'e' These are just few exceptions. However most
of the words that end with 'e', you don't have to delete the letter 'e' but just add
the letters 'ly' for your adverbs. SO these are exceptions like the word true, so truly
is the adverb for you however we do not have the letter 'e' in it. Another one due, the
adverb will be duly and for the word full your adverb will be fully. So these are just
couple of exceptions that we have and now lets have a look at another rule.
So here are some more rules that you need to keep in mind in order to form adverbs.
So lets have a look here - Now the adjectives ending with the letter 'y' - how do you form
the adverb? Well, you need to get rid of the 'y' and you need to add 'ily'. Okay, so that's
simple. we have some examples here like the word crazy.So here your adverb will be crazily.
She partied crazily. So crazily will be your adverb, so you are getting rid of the 'y'
and you are adding ' ily' Another example happily. She danced happily.
So it's gonna be ...again we say goodbye to the letter 'y' and we add 'ily'. Another one
is lazy. I spent my Sunday lazily. Here your adverb is lazily, where in you get rid of
the letter y and you add 'ily'. And the last example here is hungry so your formed adverb
will be spelt hungrily. Hope this is clear to you and now lets move on to another rule.
Adjective ending with 'le',so how do we form adverbs with the adjectives that end with
the letters 'le'? very simple, you need to replace the letter e with the letter y. Simple?
Let's have a look at the examples here. Terrible - She cooked terribly. So terribly is your
adverb but you get rid of the 'e' basically you replace the 'e' with the letter 'y', that's
gonna be terribly. Another one, comfortable. Well that's your adjective, how do you form
the adverb again get rid of the e and place the letter y so it is comfortably.
Another one - possible - replace the 'e' with the letter 'y' so it's gonna be possibly.
And then, incredible - again replace the 'e' with the letter 'y' so you have your adverb
which is incredibly.
And now let's have a look at the last rule which is adjectives ending with 'ic'. There
are adjectives that end with letters 'ic' and what do you do in order to form adverbs?
So you need to add the letter ' ally' very simple you need to add the letters 'ally'.
We will look at the example to understand this better. We have the word ironic. so here
your adverb would be ironically so therefore you are gonna add the letter ' ally'. So it's
ironically. Your adverb for the adjective realistic would be realistically. So add these
letters and it is realistically. And then another example for you here is enthusiastic
- she spent her weekend enthusiastically. So enthusiastically is your adverb and how
did you form it? you just added the letter ' ally'
So that's very simple , we have four rules where in we just simple add the letters ' ly'
to an adverb that's what we learnt and then we have adjectives that end with letter 'y'
we have to add letters 'ily' by getting rid of this 'y', adjectives ending with the letter
'le' you gonna replace the 'e' with the letter 'y' and the adjectives ending with 'ic well
very simple you just gonna add the letters ally to form your adverbs. so hope this is
clear to you. Now its time to take a test, lemme know how much did you score and I will
be back with a new lesson soon till then you take care.