Exercises
A. Choose the most suitable adverb from the box to fill in the blank. The first one
has been done for you.
unanimously inaudibly profusely
immediately attentively sternly
greedily stubbornly
wearily
1. The man was famished, so he ate _________ .
2. The boy ___________
refused to obey his parents.
3. He was _______ elected the president of the society.
4. The woman was in a lot of pain, so the doctor saw her ________ .
5. The wound was deep and bled _______ .
6. The child muttered something ________ .
7. The trekkers trudged _______ up the mountain path.
8. The students listened ________ to their teacher,
9. The police officer spoke ______
to the teenager driving a car
Answers
Question:
Choose the most suitable adverb from the box to fill in the blank.
[unanimously, inaudibly, profusely, immediately, attentively, sternly, greedily, stubbornly, wearily]
1. The man was famished, so he ate greedily.
2. The boy stubbornly refused to obey his parents.
3. He was profusely elected the president of the society.
4. The woman was in a lot of pain, so the doctor saw her immediately.
5. The wound was deep and bled wearily.
6. The child muttered something inaudibly.
7. The trekkers trudged unanimously up the mountain path.
8. The students listened attentively to their teacher.
9. The police officer spoke sternly to the teenager driving a car.
Answer:
[Exercises]
A. Choose the most suitable adverb from the box to fill in the blank.
1) The man was famished, so he ate greedily.
- Greedily means "to think to have everyone oneself or himself".
2) The boy stubbornly refused to obey his parents.
- Stubbornly means "to stand in a fixed mind and not interested in changing anytime ".
3) He was profusely elected the president of the society.
- Profusely means "to have in a big or a large amount".
4) The woman was in a lot of pain, so the doctor saw her immediately.
- Immediately means "to do something very quickly".
5) The wound was deep and bled wearily.
- Wearily means "Sleeping very deeply being so tried".
6) The child muttered something inaudibly.
- Inaudibly means "to speak something very slow which cannot be heard".
7) The trekkers trudged unanimously up the mountain path.
- Unanimously means "to move in a fixed way or path in a line".
8) The students listened attentively to their teacher.
- Attentively means "to stay having attention in hearing things".
9) The police officer spoke sternly to the teenager driving a car.
- Sternly means "to talk or speak in a serious manner".