Adverb formation

Question	Answer
busy thirsty noisy funny angry healthy tricky scary	If an adjective ends in consonant + y, y becomes i busily thirstily noisily funnily angrily healthily trickily scarily
cheap large rude useless embarrassing wild serious warm high fair public glad slow strong sad absolute exact polite patient intelligent aggressive	Normally only ly is added cheaply largely rudely uselessly embarrassingly wildly seriously warmly highly fairly publicly gladly slowly strongly sadly absolutely exactly politely patiently intelligently aggressively
probable possible terrible reasonable enjoyable uncomfortable advisable	If an adjective ends in consonant + le, drop le when adding ly probably possibly terribly reasonably enjoyably uncomfortably advisably
beautiful useful wonderful hopeful emotional traditional national accidental optimistical musical magical forgetful formal	Don't be confused by adjectives that end in -l. Simply add ly and the adverb will then end in -lly :) beautifully usefully wonderfully hopefully emotionally traditionally nationally accidentally optimistically musically magically forgetfully formally
long yearly high hard enough fast low far straight	The adverb has the same form as the adjective long yearly high hard enough fast low far straight
athletic frantic drastic sarcastic specific dramatic automatic academic romantic periodic systematic linguistic classic	For adjectives ending in ic, add ally athletically frantically drastically sarcastically specifically dramatically automatically academically romantically periodically systematically linguistically classically
true whole due	Silent e is dropped in true, due and whole truly wholly duly
hard short late wrong	This adjective has two adverbs, both with a different meaning hard/hardly short/shortly late/lately wrong/wrongly
good shy	Irregular adverbs well shyly

busy thirsty noisy funny angry healthy tricky scary

If an adjective ends in consonant + y, y becomes i busily thirstily noisily funnily angrily healthily trickily scarily

cheap large rude useless embarrassing wild serious warm high fair public glad slow strong sad absolute exact polite patient intelligent aggressive

Normally only ly is added cheaply largely rudely uselessly embarrassingly wildly seriously warmly highly fairly publicly gladly slowly strongly sadly absolutely exactly politely patiently intelligently aggressively

probable possible terrible reasonable enjoyable uncomfortable advisable

If an adjective ends in consonant + le, drop le when adding ly probably possibly terribly reasonably enjoyably uncomfortably advisably

beautiful useful wonderful hopeful emotional traditional national accidental optimistical musical magical forgetful formal

Don't be confused by adjectives that end in -l. Simply add ly and the adverb will then end in -lly :) beautifully usefully wonderfully hopefully emotionally traditionally nationally accidentally optimistically musically magically forgetfully formally

long yearly high hard enough fast low far straight

The adverb has the same form as the adjective long yearly high hard enough fast low far straight

athletic frantic drastic sarcastic specific dramatic automatic academic romantic periodic systematic linguistic classic

For adjectives ending in ic, add ally athletically frantically drastically sarcastically specifically dramatically automatically academically romantically periodically systematically linguistically classically

true whole due

Silent e is dropped in true, due and whole truly wholly duly

hard short late wrong

This adjective has two adverbs, both with a different meaning hard/hardly short/shortly late/lately wrong/wrongly

good shy

Irregular adverbs well shyly

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