Learning How To Convert Adjectives Into Adverbs Is One Of The Most Important Grammar Skills For School Students. Adverbs Help Us Describe How, When, Where, Or To What Extent An Action Happens. In Simple Words, Adjectives Describe Nouns, While Adverbs Describe Verbs.
What Is an Adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun.
Example: quick runner → “quick” describes the runner.
Common examples: happy, slow, careful, beautiful, strong, strict.
What Is an Adverb?
An adverb describes a verb, telling us how an action is done.
Example: She runs quickly. → “quickly” describes runs.
Most adverbs end with –ly, but not all.
How To Convert Adjectives Into Adverbs?
Here are easy rules:
1. Add –ly to the adjective
- quick → quickly
- beautiful → beautifully
- polite → politely
2. If the adjective ends in –y, change ‘y’ to ‘i’ + ly
- happy → happily
- easy → easily
- lazy → lazily
3. Words ending in –ic add –ally
- dramatic → dramatically
- automatic → automatically
4. Some adverbs do NOT change form
- fast → fast
- hard → hard
These rules will help you with all the worksheet answers.
Change The Adjective Into Adverb (With Answers & Explanation)
1. She is a quick runner. → She runs ________.
Adjective: quick
Adverb: quickly
📘 Explanation:
Add –ly to the adjective “quick”.
✅ Answer: quickly
2. He gave a polite reply. → He replied ________.
Adjective: polite
Adverb: politely
📘 Add –ly to form the adverb.
✅ Answer: politely
3. Riya is a beautiful singer. → Riya sings ________.
Adjective: beautiful
Adverb: beautifully
📘 Ends with –ful → simply add –ly.
✅ Answer: beautifully
4. The boy is careful. → He works ________.
Adjective: careful
Adverb: carefully
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: carefully
5. His actions were brave. → He acted ________.
Adjective: brave
Adverb: bravely
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: bravely
6. The girl is happy. → She smiled ________.
Adjective: happy
Adverb: happily
📘 Words ending in y → drop y, add ily.
✅ Answer: happily
7. It was a slow journey. → We moved ________.
Adjective: slow
Adverb: slowly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: slowly
8. He is a quiet student. → He speaks ________.
Adjective: quiet
Adverb: quietly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: quietly
9. The plan was perfect. → It worked out ________.
Adjective: perfect
Adverb: perfectly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: perfectly
10. She is a hard worker. → She works ________.
Adjective: hard
Adverb: hard
📘 Irregular adverb:
“Hard” does not change form.
❗ NOT hardly (that means “almost not”).
✅ Answer: hard
11. The child is easy to teach. → He learns ________.
Adjective: easy
Adverb: easily
📘 y → ily
✅ Answer: easily
12. Her handwriting is neat. → She writes ________.
Adjective: neat
Adverb: neatly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: neatly
13. The wind was strong. → It blew ________.
Adjective: strong
Adverb: strongly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: strongly
14. He is a serious man. → He spoke ________.
Adjective: serious
Adverb: seriously
📘 Ends with –ous → add –ly.
✅ Answer: seriously
15. The boy is lazy. → He works ________.
Adjective: lazy
Adverb: lazily
📘 y → ily
✅ Answer: lazily
16. Her voice is soft. → She spoke ________.
Adjective: soft
Adverb: softly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: softly
17. The athlete is fast. → He runs ________.
Adjective: fast
Adverb: fast
📘 Irregular adverb: fast stays the same.
❗ NOT fastly.
✅ Answer: fast
18. The teacher is strict. → She behaves ________.
Adjective: strict
Adverb: strictly
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: strictly
19. The dancer is graceful. → She moves ________.
Adjective: graceful
Adverb: gracefully
📘 Add –ly.
✅ Answer: gracefully
20. His joke was funny. → He laughed ________.
Adjective: funny
Adverb: funnily
📘 y → ily
✅ Answer: funnily
This comprehensive Change The Adjective Into Adverb Worksheet explanation helps students master one of the most essential grammar concepts. With clear rules, examples, solved answers, and step-by-step explanations, learners can confidently convert any adjective into its correct adverb form.
