Most manner-adverbs end in 'ly', though it is not compulsory.
Here is a small quiz, based on the manner-adverbs used by George Washington, the first President of United States.
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words, from the CHOICE BOX.
CHOICE BOX Words:absolutely,accordingly,actually,agreeably,apparently,considerably,dangerously,directly,easily,entirely, usefully,greatly,immediately,intensely,nearly,particularly,previously,questionably,reasonably,rightly,sincerely,sprightly,sufficiently,tensely,tolerably,unanimously,unquestionably,usefully,violently
PHRASE/CLAUSE/SENTENCE BOX
* Although Chappedelaine may not have ____been a marquis, he was apparently a member of the noble Breton family of Chappedelaine, for in late or early he. ANSWER.,
REM:'marquis' = baron, count, duke, earl etc.
* the first volume was ____in Press at Philadelphia. ANSWER.,
* unconcern after that you may regulate your conduct ____. ANSWER.,
* ____ had I halted below, rather than at this vile post. ANSWER.,
* It thawed pretty ____to day. ANSWER.
* Steptoe Washington came here this Evening to proceed to Lancaster to visit his Brother Ferdinando Washington who lay ____ill of a Consumption. ANSWER.
REM:'consumption' refers to loss of health, for reasons such as T.B., weakness.
* Mr- Fairfax going away ____after breakfast I rid to the Plantations in the Neck--at Muddy hole. ANSWER.,
* That work, he told subscribers in Alexandria, was now "____finished, and. ANSWER.
* The barn is so well planned that a man can fill the racks with hay or potatoes ____. ANSWER.
REM: Washington was planning to construct a barn in his farm..
* promised a free Navigation was ____closed again to day, in all the malignancy of the frost. ANSWER.,
* The Plows at Muddy hole were ____employed. ANSWER.,
* was ____surprised to learn that the printers had not "received one shilling" from the author, nor had they "ever seen the manuscript". ANSWER.
REM:This reference is to a person (the author) who promised to write and publish the history of the American freedom struggle.
* think you may with't disclosing much of mine as I know y'r own good sense can furnish you with means enough without letting it proceed ____from me. ANSWER.,
* Mercury in the Ball of the Thermometer in the Morning, from whence it never rose the whole day, being ____cold. ANSWER.
* I wou'd advise your visiting often as one step towards it the rest, if any more is necessary, your own good sense will sufficient dictate for to that Family I am under many obligations, ____to the old Gentleman. ANSWER.,
* The marquis de Chappedelaine, "a Captain in the first Regt of french Dragoons" who was touring the United States, had ____visited New York, Philadelphia. ANSWER.,
* letters this evening from Boston & New York informing him that the Convention of Massachusetts then sitting would ____accept of it" (DLC). ANSWER.,
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The Drought in this County, if possible, exceeds what we see below so that, it is very ____conjectur'd they won't make Corn to suffice the People . ANSWER.,
* happiness to, very ____I am Dear Jack, your most Affectionate Brother
ANSWER.,
* It appearing that the ground would be ____thawed I ordered the whole of them to take their Tools home & try to put up their Fences,. ANSWER.,
* Mercury in the Ball of the Thermometer in the Morning, from whence it never rose the whole day, being ____cold. ANSWER.,
* Let me know whether he purposes to offer himself a Candidate If he does not I shou'd be glad to stand a poll, if I thought my chance ____good. ANSWER.,
* you would have gone ____ in the mean time I think your poll was not despicable as the people were a stranger to your purpose, untill the election began. ANSWER.,
* The Plows at Muddy hole were ____employed. ANSWER.,
*The wind blew ____all day. ANSWER.
Note: The diary, which I have taken for a random study, consisted of both farm activities and some quasi-political activities, after his retirement.
