📝 Created by: El Arby Ameur | 📅 August 2026 | 🌐 lesson.tn

📖 Estimated reading time: 8 minutes | Word count: ~1200 words

📖 Adverbs Rules: Formation, Placement, and Types

Level: A2-B1 | Focus: How to form and use adverbs correctly

Grammar Adverbs adverbs rules grammar

1. Formation of Adverbs

• adjective + -ly: quick → quickly, careful → carefully
• -y → -ily: happy → happily, easy → easily
• -le → -ly: gentle → gently, terrible → terribly
• -ic → -ically: dramatic → dramatically
• Irregular: good → well, fast → fast, hard → hard

2. Types of Adverbs

• Manner (how): quickly, slowly, carefully, well
• Time (when): yesterday, now, soon, later, today
• Place (where): here, there, everywhere, inside, outside
• Frequency (how often): always, usually, often, sometimes, never
• Degree (how much): very, too, quite, almost, extremely

3. Placement Rules

• Manner: after verb/object (She sings beautifully)
• Frequency: before main verb (I always eat), after 'to be' (I am always happy)
• Time: beginning or end (Yesterday I saw her / I saw her yesterday)
• Place: after verb (Please sit here)
• Degree: before adjective/adverb (very good, too fast)
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