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Look at the pictures and read the sentences.

A tortoise crawls slowly. The Sun shines brightly.

Here, slowly tells how a tortoise crawls, and brightly tells how the Sun shines.

So, slowly and brightly are adverbs of manner or how words.

We often add -ly to adjectives to form adverbs.

Adjective Adverb Adjective Adverb

quick quickly beautiful beautifully

correct correctly loud loudly

slow slowly sweet sweetly

bright brightly neat neatly

Practice Time 1

Circle the adverbs of manner in the following sentences.

1. Pinky sings a song sweetly.

2. My brother writes slowly.

3. The soldiers fought bravely.

4. We read the book carefully.

5. Our teacher helps us happily.

6. The boy answered the question correctly. Adverbs

7. She kept the clothes neatly.

8. I ate an ice cream quickly.

9. He ran quickly.

10. My mother speaks softly.
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