English Grammar Adverbs for Class 7

An adverb tells us more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Most Class 7 students can define it. The difficulty comes in three places: putting adverbs in the right position, ordering two or three of them in one sentence, and telling an adverb from an adjective when both look the same. This guide focuses on those three.

The Five Kinds, at a Glance

Not every adverb ends in -ly. Fast, well, soon, often and here are all adverbs. And not every -ly word is an adverb. Friendly, lovely, lonely and ugly are adjectives: “a friendly dog”, “a lovely day”. If adjectives need a quick refresher first, this guide to the six kinds of adjectives in Class 7 is worth a look first.

Where Adverbs Go

Frequency adverbs go before the main verb, but after am/is/are/was/were and after a helping verb.

• She usually walks to school.

• He is always late.

• I have never seen snow.

Degree adverbs go right before the word they strengthen.

• The soup was very hot.

• She ran quite fast.

Manner, place and time adverbs usually go at the end, after the object.

• He opened the box carefully. (Not “He opened carefully the box”.)

Time adverbs can also go at the start for emphasis.

• Yesterday, we visited the museum.

Several Adverbs in One Sentence

When manner, place and time adverbs all come at the end, the usual order is manner → place → time. One way to remember it is MPT.

She sang beautifully (manner) at the concert (place) last night (time).

After verbs of movement, like go, come and arrive, place usually comes first:

He went home (place) quickly (manner) after school (time).

The order starts to sound natural once kids have heard and said it enough times, so speaking out loud helps more than any acronym. That’s where public speaking classes for kids like Bambinos’ can help.

Adverb or Adjective?

These pairs cause the most mistakes in Class 7 writing.

Good / well: Good is an adjective, and well is its adverb.

• Wrong: She sings good.

• Right: She sings well.

• Right: She is a good singer.

But well can also be an adjective meaning “healthy”: “I’m not feeling well.”

Hard / hardly: These mean completely different things.

• He works hard. (With great effort.)

• He hardly works. (Almost not at all.)

Late / lately: Late means not on time, and lately means recently.

• She arrived late.

• I haven’t seen him lately.

Fast: The adjective and the adverb are the same word, and there is no “fastly”.

• A fast car (adjective)

• He drives fast (adverb)

Exercises

Exercise 1: Find the Adverb and Name Its Kind

1. He drove carefully.

2. I will meet you tomorrow.

3. They played outside.

4. She almost missed the train.

5. We often visit our cousins.

Exercise 2: Put the Word in Brackets in the Right Place

1. The visitors have left. (just)

2. I feel angry at our noisy neighbours. (sometimes)

3. Do you go out in the evening? (often)

4. Raman ate his breakfast. (quickly)

5. I think you behaved selfishly. (very)

Exercise 3: Choose the Correct Word

1. She plays the violin very (good / well).

2. The test was so (hard / hardly) that I could (hard / hardly) finish it.

3. Have you read any good books (late / lately)?

4. He is a (friendly / friendlily) person.

Exercise 4: Find the Adverb and the Word It Describes

1. Madan put the money safely in the bank.

2. Mr Verma was quite annoyed.

3. Speak softly, or you’ll wake the baby.

4. In winter, Amritsar is much colder than Ahmedabad.

5. The staff are unusually tense today.

Answers

Exercise 1

1. carefully (manner)

2. tomorrow (time)

3. outside (place)

4. almost (degree)

5. often (frequency)

Exercise 2

1. The visitors have just left.

2. I sometimes feel angry at our noisy neighbours.

3. Do you often go out in the evening?

4. Raman ate his breakfast quickly.

5. I think you behaved very selfishly.

Exercise 3

1. well

2. hard, hardly

3. lately

4. friendly (an adjective describing person. There’s no word “friendlily” in common use.)

Exercise 4

1. safely → put

2. quite → annoyed

3. softly → speak

4. much → colder

5. unusually → tense; today → are (the verb)

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