B2 English Grammar Test – Adverbs multiple-choice questions

1   She looked at him … .

a) pointed

b) pointedly

c) pointedful

2   The politician … overcame uneasy and awkward questions from journalists.

a) skillful

b) skillfuller

c) skillfully

3   Our friends … invited us to visit their new home.

a) cordially

b) cordial

c) cordialful

4   Our team played … last month.

a) bad

b) badly

c) badful

5   We are going to meet at seven o’clock … .

a) precisely

b) precise

c) precising

6   I need your help … .

a) badily

b) worse

c) badly

7   It’s cold outside. You have to dress up … .

a) warmly

b) warmful

c) warm

8   He was running as … as he could.

a) fast

b) fastly

c) faster

9   Jake … ignored me when I tried to talk to him.

a) simple

b) simply

c) more simple

10   … speaking, this song is utter garbage.

a) Currently

b) Suddenly

c) Bluntly

11   He didn’t hesitate even a second. He pushed the door open … and went outside.

a) shyly

b) decisively

c) suspensively

12   Do you see her? She looks … ridiculous in that yellow coat.

a) utterly

b) fairly

c) badly

13   The problem is … serious.

a) obviously

b) lately

c) shyly

14   …, we have lost the game and it’s only our fault. I’ve got nothing to add.

a) Personally

b) By the way

c) Anyway

15   The summer is coming, so it’s important to know how to get tanned … .

a) likely

b) truly

c) safely

16   I broke a porcelain vase … .

a) accidenty

b) accidental

c) accidentally

17   This politician is not a person who speaks … about the real economic situation in the country.

a) truthfully

b) gustably

c) sipidly

18   Your dress goes … with these shoes.

a) bluntly

b) elegantly

c) sharply

19   It’s raining … . Stay overnight at our place.

a) heavily

b) hardly

c) powerfully

20   The vase was very fragile. She placed it down on the table … .

a) harshly

b) gingerly

c) bluntly

21   I … hope that you will be alright soon.

a) sincerely

b) sensorly

c) sensibly

22   She behaved … because she knew nobody of that company.

a) boldly

b) pertly

c) timidly

23   We all were sitting silently and waiting … for the news from the hospital.

a) briskly

b) patiently

c) swiftly

24   John was just … grateful that all his friends bothered to read his book.

a) toughly

b) resiliently

c) pathetically

25   I’m not sure, but she is … in the park.

a) surely

b) definitely

c) probably

26   Tell me the reason … you didn’t call me yesterday.

a) how

b) that

c) why

27   He still remembers the day … he first flew an aircraft.

a) on which

b) on when

c) that

28   She … suggested that each member of the team should take the responsibility for results.

a) sensibly

b) carelessly

c) flippantly

29   Place the adverb on the correct place in the sentence:

a) He was eating the roast chicken greedily because he was very hungry.

b) He was eating greedily the roast chicken because he was very hungry.

c) He greedily was eating the roast chicken because he was very hungry.

d) He was eating the roast chicken because he was very hungry greedily.

30   Place the adverb on the correct place in the sentence:

a) The team moved after slowly we had passed more than 15 miles.

b) The team moved after we had passed more than 15 miles slowly.

c) The team slowly moved after we had passed more than 15 miles.

d) The team moved slowly after we had passed more than 15 miles.