Question

1. Choose the correct adverb to complete the sentences below.

This year the river is flowing wide / widely.

Professor Peyton is wide / widelyknown in scientific circles.

The wind is blowing hard / hardlynow.

The wind is hardly / hardblowing today.

Why did you come so late / lately?

What have you been doing late / lately?

The birds are flying high / highly.

He is always high / highly spoken about.

I live close / closelyto my school.

Why are you looking at me so close / closely?

The oil deposit is deep / deeply touched by his words.

The library is near / nearlythe cathedral.

It’s near / nearly midnight. It’s time to go to bed.

Answer 1

1. wide
2. widely known
3.hard
4.hard blowing
5.late
6.lately
7. high
8.highly
9.close
10.closely
11.deeply
12.near
13.nearly