Adverbs and Adjectives

1. I remarked that it was better to approach Ken (1) direct/directly and not through his secretary. His secretary laughed out (2) loud/loudly at my remark. I think really she was (3) deep/deeply offended by what I'd said.

2. Old Mr Elkins is still going (4) strong/strongly although he's over ninety. He says he'd like to reach a hundred, but admits he may be aiming a bit (5) high/ highly. However, there's a (6) wide/widely held belief in the village that he'll get there.

3. Georgina was about to say something but stopped (7) short /shortly, and her eyes opened (8) wide/widely with amazement. Somewhere in the house a horse had neighed (9) loud/loudly.

4. 'He told me to turn (10) sharp/sharply left just past the station.'

'If he told you that he told you (11) wrong/wrongly. But you got here in the end even though you were (12) wrong/wrongly directed.'

5. (13) Faint /Faintly in the distance we heard the noise of thunder. Then the radio went (14) faint/faintly and we could (15) hard/hardly hear the news. We shut all the windows (16) tight/tightly and waited for the storm.

6. Marilyn's leaving (17) short/shortly for the United States on a business trip. As she (18) right /rightly says, there's nothing like personal contact for promoting one's products. Her suitcase is so (19) tight/tightly packed with samples there's not even room for a toothbrush. She refuses to take two suitcases because she wants to travel (20) light/lightly.

7. Ken was driving along at about eighty miles an hour when a stone went (21) clean /cleanly through the windscreen and hit him in the face. Afterwards he talked (22) light /lightly of the affair, but he was lucky to escape with his life.

8. There's a lot more to Willie than one would think: still waters run (23) deep/ deeply, as they say. I've been following his career (24) close/closely, and think high/highly of his ability as an architect. But he's inclined to work too hard/hardly, and the doctor has recently advised him to go (27) slow/slowly.

9. When I took my driving test, the examiner said I had done everything (28) right/rightly except reversing, when I had turned too (29) sharp/sharply and mounted the pavement. He (30) strong/ strongly recommended me to practise in a smaller car than the one I'd been using.

10. Denis thinks up the most ludicrous schemes, which all fall (31) flat /flatly. Helen's parents are (32) flat /flatly opposed to any idea of her marrying him. They say he was (33) direct /directly involved in the recent financial scandal at the Town Hall.

11. The struggles my parents had in the early years of their marriage brought them (34) closer /more closely together. Things often went (35) bad/badly for them in those days, but look at them now! Things turned out (36) right /rightly in the end.