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B Answer the questions below. Discuss your answers with a partner.
1 Do you usually do poorly on tests or get high scores?

2 Are you a shy or an outgoing person?

3 What is the most expensive store you know?

4 Which do you like more: a good movie or a good conversation?

A Read the sentences. Vocabulary Skill
-/yAdverbs
Slow and quick are adjectives. Add -ly to make an adverb.
In the passage, you
Bill is a slow eater. Bill eats slowly. saw the words quickly
(adj.) (adv.) and poorly. These are
Jane is a quick thinker. Jane thinks quickly. adverbs. They tell us
(adj.) (adv.) how something is
done. Many adverbs
( Look at the change in spelling. ) end in -ly.

The girl is happy. She's smiling. The girl is smiling happily.
(adj.) (adv.)

B Complete the chart with the adverbs. Pay attention to the spelling.

/ Adjective Adverb Adjective Adverb '\
quiet busy
loud soft
angry nervous
,easy neat

C In each sentence, @the correct word.

1 Eva is speaking ( loud I loudly). Everyone can hear her.
2 Please be ( quiet I quietly)! You're in a library.
3 You can talk, but please speak ( soft I softly).
4 Don't eat so ( quick I quickly)!
5 I am so ( nervous l nervously )! There's a big exam tomorrow.
6 I always do ( poor I poorly ) on tests.

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