EXERCISE
GRAMMAR: ADJ/ADV - INDEFINITE QUANTIFIERS
Exercise 1: Find the adjective in the first sentence and fill the gap with the adverb.
1. Joanne is happy. She smiles _______
2. The boy is loud. He shouts _______
3. Her English is fluent. She speaks English _______
4. Our mum was angry. She spoke to us _______
5. My neighbour is a careless driver. He drives _______
6. The painter is awful. He paints _______
7. Jim is a wonderful piano player. He plays the piano _______
8. This girl is very quiet. She often sneaks out of the house _______
9. She is a good dancer. She dances really _______
10. This exercise is simple. You _______ have to put one word in each space.
Exercise 2: Choose the correct item from the choices in the parentheses:
1. Don't walk under that ladder. It's (dangerous / dangerously) ________________
2. That woman sings very (bad / badly) ______________. What a terrible noise!
3. Thu is a (skillful / skillfully) _______________ swimmer because she practices every day.
4. Nga ran (fast / fastly) _______________ and won the race.
5. Mr. Dang is a (gool / well) ___________ badminton player. He won a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
6. The man with the broken leg walked (slow / slowly) _____________ down the street.
7. My mother added some wine to the beef so it tasted (good / well) ______________
8. Nga sat (silent / silently) _________________ in her room.
9. These sunflowers smell (sweetly / sweet) ________________
10. You look (terribly / terrible) ________________ . Are you all right?
11. The child became (violently / violent) ___________ when his friend threw him a snack.
12. Liz is talking (interesting / interestingly) ________________ about her vacation in Da Lat.
13. Shut the window (quiet / quietly) _________________, please.
14. My father is a (careful / carefully) ________ driver. He always drives (careful / carefully) ___________
15. Last week, Liz saw many (different / differently) _________________ types of fish.
16. Tommy and Henry often wear (colorful / colorfully) ________________ clothes.
17. Sharks are not as (dangerous / dangerously) ________________ as people think.
18. (Sudden / Suddenly) ________________, the mummy got up and smiled at the viewers.
19. My grandfather is 80 years old. He walks very (slow / slowly) ________________
20. The food of the restaurant smells (deliciously / delicious) __________________
21. I tried on the shoes and they fitted me (perfect / perfectly) _________________
22. You should follow (strict / strictly) _________________ the traffic rules.
23. If you work too (hard / harly) _________________, you'll get tired.
24. We should do morning exercises (regular / regularly) _________________
25. I can't see (clear / clearly) ________________ because it's too dark.
26. (Lucky / Luckily) __________________, we arrived home late in the evening.
27. My grandparents' garden has many (beautiful / beautifully) _________________ flowers.
28. I always feel (nervous / nervously) ________________ before every exam.
29. She speaks (good / well) _______________ English. She can make herself understood.
30. My children are playing (happy / happily) ________________ in the front yard.
31. They become (sick / sickly) ________________ after eating the poisonous vegetables.
32. The girl looked at me (angry / angrily) _________________ when I walked past her.
33. Tim seemed to go so (slow / slowly) ________________. When would you arrive?
34. If you have a (fast / fastly) _____________ car, why don't you drive (fast / fastly) _____________?
35. She looked very (happy / happily) _____ at the test results and smiled (cheerful / cheerfully) ________
36. She dressed (quick / quickly) _________________ to save time.
37. We saw an (exciting / excitingly) __________________ action movie two months ago.
38. The teacher explains the lesson (clear / clearly) ________________ to the students.
39. Mr. Hung can keep (fit / fitly) __________________ because he does morning exercises at 5 a.m.
40. The door often stands (open / openly) ___________________
Exercise 3: Fill in the blanks with “ a little”, “a lot of”, “ too much”
1. I have done ……….. exercises of grammar.
2. You made ………... mistakes in your writing.
3. The Smiths spent ………. money on their last trip.
4. I do not know ,…….… about biology. I have ........... knowledge about genetics.
5. The boys are making too ……….. noise.
6. We spend ………. time on English grammar. So your answer is bad.
7. There is ……………. sugar in the jar.
8. You must drink……………...water every day.
Exercise 4: In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers:
much, many, lots of, a lot of, little, a little, little, a few, few
1. It seems to me that we've had………………..……. assignments in English this term.
2. How ………………..……. material can we be expected to read in one week?
3. ………………..……. books are not in the library.
4. I've had ………………..……. headaches already because of stress.
5. ………………..……. depression can be attributed to being overworked.
6. Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too ………………..……. weeds.
7. I didn't use ………………..……. fertilizer last spring, and that has made a difference.
8. Also, I've paid ………………..……. attention to how ………………..……. rain we've had.
9. I'm afraid it's rained ………………..……. times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and dying.
10. ………………..……. experts say you should fertilize your lawn in the fall.
11. It didn't seem to do my lawn ………………..……. good.
12. ………………..……. advice you get from experts doesn't seem to help.
13. ………………..……. of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year.
14. They say ………………..…….knowledge is a bad thing.
15. I know ………………..……. instances where that proves true.
16. ………………..……. people know as much about computers as Tomas does.
17. But it does him ………………..……. good when the whole system goes down.
18. I will take ... time, but I’m sure you’ll learn the rules eventually.
19. Many questions were asked, but ... were answered.
20. I don’t think I can lift this box on my own. I need... help.
21. The postman doesn’t often come here. We receive... letters.
22. Tom isn’t finding it easily to fix the shelf. He is having... trouble.
23. David quite likes golf, but unfortunately he has... ability.
24. I can speak ...words of Swedish, but not very fluent.
Exercise 5: Choose the correct words
1. He doesn’t have (much / many) money.
2. She buys (many/a lot of) bacon.
3. They spend (a large number of / a great deal of) salt on this soup so it is very salty now.
4. The teacher finds (a large number of / a great deal of) mistakes in his writing.
5. (How much / how many) pounds of butter does she want?
6. (How much / how many) butter does she want?
Exercise 6 Write questions with “How much?” or “How many?”
1. We’ve got some eggs.
2. She has a lot of milk.
3. Can you buy some cucumber?
4. Their house has a lot of windows.
5. Some people are cooking hamburger for dinner.
6. We need some rice.
Exercise 7 Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
1. Can I have any milk in my coffee, please?
2. There are too much children in my sister’s class.
3. Justin has got a new job. He’s earning so many money!
4. There aren’t some students in the classroom.
5. It’s Tom’s party tonight and I haven’t got something to wear.
6 “Look at this mess! Did you do this, Henry?” “No it wasn’t me! I didn’t do nothing!”
7. “Do you get a seat in the bus?” “No there is somewhere to sit. I have to stand”
8. I come to work by motorbike. Fortunately there is a few traffic.
9.“Have we got milk for the coffee? “ No I couldn’t buy some.”