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1. Find the sentences in the lesson which have the adverbs given in the box below.

awfully

sorrowfully

completely

loftily

carefully

differently

quickly

nonchalantly

2. Now use these adverbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

(i) The report must be read so that performance can be improved.

(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions shrugging his shoulders.

(iii) We all behave when we are tired or hungry.

(iv) The teacher shook her head when Ravi lied to her.

(v) I forgot about it.

(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled and turned away.

(vii) The President of the Company is busy and will not be able to meet you.

(viii) I finished my work so that I could go out to play.

3. Make adverbs from these adjectives.

(i)

angry

(ii)

happy

(iii)

merry

(iv)

sleepy

(v)

easy

(vi)

noisy

(vii)

tidy

(viii)

gloomy

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1. (i) Awfully

They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to − on a screen, you know.

(ii) Sorrowfully

The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.

(iii) Completely

They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

(iv) Loftily

He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”

(v) Carefully

He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “Centuries ago.”

(vi) Differently

“But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.”

(vii) Quickly

“I didn’t say I didn’t like it,” Margie said quickly.

(viii) Nonchalantly

“May be,” he said nonchalantly.

2. (i) The report must be read carefully so that performance can be improved.

(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions loftily, shrugging his shoulders.

(iii) We all behave differently when we are tired or hungry.

(iv) The teacher shook her head sorrowfully when Ravi lied to her.

(v) I completely forgot about it.

(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled nonchalantly and turned away.

(vii) The President of the Company is awfully busy and will not be able to meet you.

(viii) I finished my work quickly so that I could go out to play.

3.

(i)

angry

Angrily

(ii)

happy

Happily

(iii)

merry

Merrily

(iv)

sleepy

Sleepily

(v)

easy

Easily

(vi)

noisy

Noisily

(vii)

tidy

Tidily

(viii)

gloomy

Gloomily

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Adverbs

Read this sentence taken from the story:

They had once taken Tommy’s teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely.

The word complete is an adjective. When you add -ly to it, it becomes an adverb.

1. Find the sentences in the lesson which have the adverbs given in the box below.

awfully	sorrowfully	completely	loftily
carefully	differently	quickly	nonchalantly

2. Now use these adverbs to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

(i) The report must be read __________ so that performance can be improved.

(ii) At the interview, Sameer answered our questions __________ shrugging his shoulders.

(iii) We all behave __________ when we are tired or hungry.

(iv) The teacher shook her head __________ when Ravi lied to her.

(v) I __________ forgot about it.

(vi) When I complimented Revathi on her success, she just smiled __________ and turned away.

(vii) The President of the Company is __________busy and will not be able to meet you.

(viii) I finished my work __________ so that I could go out to play.

3. Make adverbs from these adjectives.

(i)	angry	__________	(ii)	happy	__________
(iii)	merry	__________	(iv)	sleepy	__________
(v)	easy	__________	(vi)	noisy	__________
(vii)	tidy	__________	(viii)	gloomy	__________

Q. Select the adverb in the sentence given below.
Tom finished his lunch too quickly to go and play.

Read the two paragraphs given below.
My mother is always awake before anyone else in the family. I usually wake up after 6 o’ clock. I loll around lazily for a few minutes. Then I get up and get dressed for school.
At bedtime, I read a story book. When I feel tired I lie down and go to sleep very quickly. I fall asleep in no time at all!

(i) Now find the opposites of the following words from the paragraphs and complete the table.

awake	asleep
wake up	________________
get up	________________
lazily	________________

(ii) Fill in the blanks using the words in the previous questions.

(a) ______________ and ______________ quickly! You will be late for school.

(b) Shh! The baby is ______________. Don't make a sound, or she will ______________.

(c) Are you still ______________? You should be ______________ now or you will not be able to_____________ in the morning for school.

Fill in the blanks below using ‘had to’/ ‘have to’/ ‘has to’.

(i) I ____________cut my hair every month.

(ii) We _____________ go for swimming lessons last year.

(iii) She ____________tell the principal the truth.

(iv) They ______________take the baby to the doctor.

(v) We _____________ complain to the police about the noise.

(vi) Romit ___________finish his homework before he could come out to play.

(vii) I _______________repair my cycle yesterday.

1. The Narrative Present

Notice the incomplete sentences in the following paragraphs. Here the writer is using incomplete sentences in the narration to make the incident more dramatic or immediate. Can you rewrite the paragraph in complete sentences?

(You can begin: The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering…)

(i) A dash back to car. Bruno still floundering about on his stumps, but clearly weakening rapidly; some vomiting, heavy breathing, with heaving flanks and gaping mouth.

Hold him everybody! In goes the hypodermic – Bruno squeals – 10 c.c. of the antidote enters his system without a drop being wasted. Then minutes later: condition unchanged! Another 10 c.c. injected! Ten minutes later: breathing less stertorous – Bruno can move his arms and legs a little although he can not stand yet. Thirty minutes later: Bruno gets up and has a great feed! He looks at us disdainfully, as much as to say, ‘What’s barium carbonate to a big black bear like me?’ Bruno is still eating.

(ii) In the paragraphs above from the story the verbs are in the present tense (eg. hold, goes, etc.). This gives the reader an impression of immediacy. The present tense is often used when we give a commentary on a game (cricket, football, etc.), or tell a story as if it is happening now. It is, therefore, called the narrative present.

You will read more about the present tense in Unit 10

2. Adverbs

Find the adverbs in the passage below. (You’ve read about adverbs in Unit 1.)

We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth-bear wantonly but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the bear on the spot.

(i) Complete the following sentences, using a suitable adverb ending in –ly.

(a) Rana does her homework _______________.

(b) It rains ___________ in Mumbai in June.

(d) The dog serves his master _____________.

(ii) Choose the most suitable adverbs or adverbial phrases and complete the following sentences.

(a) We should ____________get down from a moving train. (never, sometimes, often)

(b) I was ___________ in need of support after my poor performance. (badly, occasionally, sometimes).

3. Take down the following scrambled version of a story, that your teacher will dictate to you, with appropriate punctuation marks. Then, read the scrambled story carefully and try to rewrite it rearranging the incidents.

A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, “When did you get the corn? I am dying of hunger.” She wanted to dry them. It was a cold winter’s day, and an ant was bringing out some grains of corn from her home. She had gathered the corn in summer.

“I was singing all day,” answered the grasshopper.

“If you sang all summer,” said the ant, “you can dance all winter.”

“What were you doing?” asked the ant again.

The grasshopper replied, “I was too busy.”

“I collected it in summer,” said the ant. “What were you doing in summer? Why did you not store some corn?”

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(i)	angry	Angrily	(ii)	happy	Happily
(iii)	merry	Merrily	(iv)	sleepy	Sleepily
(v)	easy	Easily	(vi)	noisy	Noisily
(vii)	tidy	Tidily	(viii)	gloomy	Gloomily