write them in your own words.
Sorrowfully
Loftily
Nonchalantly
Answers
Answer:
full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad. showing or expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive: a sorrowful song. involving or causing sorrow; distressing: a sorrowful event.
Answer:
1. Find the sentences in the lessons which have the adverbs given in the box below.
[awfully, sorrowfully, completely, loftily, carefully, differently, quickly, nonchalantly ]
ANSWER
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Awfully : [page no.6 (third line)] They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to - on a screen, you know.
Sorrowfully : [page no.6 (paragraph 3, fourth line)] The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the Country Inspector.
Completely : [page no. 7 (paragraph 5, 10th line)] They had once taken Tommy's teacher away for a nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.
Loftily : [ page no. 7 (paragraph 6, fourth line)] He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, "Centuries ago."
Carefully : [ page no. 7 (paragraph 6, fourth line)] He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, "Centuries ago."
Differently : [page no. 8] "But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently."
Quickly : [paragraph no. 8 (6th line)] " I didn't say I didn't like it," Margie said quickly.
Nonchalantly : [ paragraph no. 9 ] "May be," he said nonchalantly
2. Now use these adverbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.
ANSWER :
(i) The report must be read carefully so that performance can be improved.
(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions nonchalantly shrugging his shoulders.
(iii) We all behave differently when we are tired or hungry.
(iv) The teacher shook her head sorrowfully when Ravi lied to her.
(v) I completely forgot about it.
(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled loftily and turned away.
(vii) The President of the company is awfully busy and will not be able to meet you.
(viii) I finished my work quickly so that I could go out to play.
3. Make adverbs from these adjectives.
(i) angry
(ii) happy
(iii) merry
(iv) sleepy
(v) easy
(vi) noisy
(vii) tidy
(viii) gloomy
ANSWER :
(i) angry - angrily
(ii) happy - happily
(iii) merry -merrily
(iv) sleepy - sleepily
(v) easy - easily
(vi) noisy - noisily
(vii) tidy - tidily
(viii) gloomy - gloomily