Adverbs in C2 Proficiency Use of English Part Three game
Choose one of the root words below and either:
- Try to guess exactly the adverb that was the answer in a Cambridge Proficiency Use of English Part Three word formation test (with no points for other guesses, even if your guess is a correct adverb, for example if the real adverb has a negative prefix that you didn’t add)
OR
- Take turns trying to make adverbs out of one of the root words below that no one has made yet, with one point for anything that is a correct adverb and is linked to the root word below (even if it isn’t the answer from the real test)
OR
- Choose one of the root words which you think it is difficult to guess the adverb of but think you can guess. Your teacher will give the other groups a chance to guess the adverb and come to you last, with one point for whichever group gets the right answer.
When you finish one game above, write as many adverbs as you can next to each root word below, compare to the original list, then play another game above with a fresh copy of the root words.
Root words to make adverbs out of
add appreciate
argue base
ceremony compare
condition confidence
consequence credible
critic depend
drama dread
environs except
expect extend
gene increase
instinct mercy
mystery necessity
notice notoriety
ordinary perceive
progress repeat
rhythm signify
specify spectacle
suffice volunteer
Suggested answers
Other adverbs are often also possible, so please ask if you said or wrote something different.
add additionally
appreciate appreciably
argue arguably
base basically
ceremony unceremoniously
compare comparatively
condition unconditionally
confidence confidently
consequence consequently
credible incredibly
critic critically
depend independently
drama dramatically
dread dreadfully
environs environmentally
except exceptionally
expect unexpectedly
extend extensively
gene genetically
increase increasingly
instinct instinctively
mercy mercifully
mystery mysteriously
necessity necessarily
notice noticeably
notoriety notoriously
ordinary extraordinarily
perceive imperceptibly
progress progressively
repeat repeatedly
rhythm rhythmically
signify significantly
specify specifically
spectacle spectacularly
suffice sufficiently
volunteer involuntarily
Look at just the right-hand column above and brainstorm as many different forms of those words as you can, e.g. nouns and superlative adjectives.
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C2 Proficiency Use of English page
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