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Learning objective: The students will be able to identify and use the adverbs of
manner.
 Adverbs of manner describe how something happens.
Example: The boy ran. If we ask “How did the boy run?" You might say:

The boy ran fast.
The boy ran slowly.
The boy ran quickly.

The boy ran carefully. Here, ran is the verb.
 We already know that the word which modifies a verb is known as an Adverb.
 Here fast, slowly, quickly, carefully are the adverbs.

They answer to the question “How”.
These are Adverbs of manner.

 Adverbs of manner are usually formed from adjectives by adding –ly:
Bad-badly quiet – quietly sudden – suddenly
But sometimes there are changes in spelling:
easy>easily gentle>gently careful>carefully
Learning objective: The students were able to identify and use the adverbs of
manner.