Suffixes ly - Adjectives to Adverbs - Free Printable

Here are the answers to complete your worksheet.

Change these words from adjectives to adverbs by adding ly:

* slow - slowly
* bad - badly
* nice - nicely
* happy - happily
* lazy - lazily
* careful - carefully
* deep - deeply
* thin - thinly
* scary - scarily
* gentle - gently
* true - truly

1. In order to turn it into an adverb, what do you have to do a word when it ends y (happy)?
You have to take off the y and add ily.

2. What do you have to do to adjectives that end in e (gentle)?
You usually just add ly to the end (for example: gentle becomes gently).
*(Note: For the word "true," you drop the "e" first to make "truly," but for most words like "nice" or "gentle," you just add "ly".)*

3. Can you think of some more adjectives that can be turned into adverbs by adding ly?
*(Here are four examples you can write in the boxes)*

* Adjective: loud → Adverb: loudly
* Adjective: quiet → Adverb: quietly
* Adjective: fast → Adverb: fastly *(Note: In English we usually just say "fast", but for this rule exercise, some students might write this. A better one is "soft")* -> Let's use safer ones:
* Adjective: soft → Adverb: softly
* Adjective: bright → Adverb: brightly
* Adjective: clear → Adverb: clearly
* Adjective: wrong → Adverb: wrongly