Exercise: ADVERB

Exercise: ADVERB 01

1.     Pesticides are necessary to maintain high crop yields in a world with a decreasing acreage of arable land and a steadily expanding population.

2.     Millions of dollars are donated year to the Red Cross to aid people in disaster-struck areas.

3.     Scientists can observe a chemical’s effect in rats and reasonable expect a like effect in humans.

4.     In communes, land and products are collective owned.

5.     The mildly paranoid person may lead a relatively normal life.

6.     In early American colonial settlements, secular education was virtual nonexistent.

7.     While undeniable appealing, burros have also been destructive.

8.     The anthropologist unearthed rows of large stones, clearly the foundation of another building.

9.     Because of his family ties, he frequent came back to the town.

10.                        The departure appears to have taken place hastily.

Answer keys:

1.     correct 2. yearly 3. reasonably 4. collectively 5. correct 6. virtually

7. undeniably 8. correct 9. frequently 10. correct

Exercise: ADVERBS 02

1. By the end of the 1950s, portions of the Atlantic around New York had become----.

A. extremely dirty

B. extreme dirtiness

C. more dirty

D. extremely dirtily

2. Because so much of the Sudan is dry land, irrigation ---- for farming.

A. essentially

B. is essential

C. has essentially

D. has essential

3. Pilots who prepare for military careers train on the ground ---- in the air.

A. as good as

B. as well as

C. well as

D. good as

4. None of the exercises provides students with practice in understanding ---- questions.

A. really difficult

B. real difficult

C. reality, difficulty

D. really, difficulty

5. Saul Bellow has ---- life in Chicago where he spent his childhood.

A. vivid portrayal

B. vividly portrayed

C. vividly portrays

D. vivid portrait

6. Knight Dunlop conducted his famous photography experiment ---- sixty years ago.

A. nearing

B. nears

C. near

D. nearly

7. The elder person whose spouse dies may find it -- -- to adjust to living alone.

A. particularly hard

B. particular, hard

C. hardly particular

D. hard, particularly

8. Beethoven’s nephew became his pupil, but this relationship turned out ----.

A. bad

B. badly

C. worst

D. more badly

9. Edgar Degas was ---- visual information about faces, movement, and light.

A. constant accumulation

B. constantly accumulate

C. constantly accumulating

D. constant, accumulated

10. People who are ---- cannot tell light from dark.

A. blind totally

B. a total blind

C. totally blind

D. totally blindly

Answer keys:

1.     a 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. b 6. d 7. a 8. b 9. c 10. c