Verbal Ability - Adverbs Online Quiz



Following quiz provides Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) related to Adverbs. You will have to read all the given answers and click over the correct answer. If you are not sure about the answer then you can check the answer using Show Answer button. You can use Next Quiz button to check new set of questions in the quiz.

Questions and Answers

Q 1 - Do you ____ go to sleep early? Is it insomnia?

A - ever

B - Sometime

C - never

D - Every time

Answer : C

Explanation

Never is an adverb used to deny the occurrence of an action.

Q 2 - I ____ sleep for 12 hours in the weekends, if I have no errand to run.

A - Never

B - Regularly

C - Sometimes

D - Always

Answer : C

Explanation

Sometimes is an adverb used to mention an action happening in a few occurrences.

Q 3 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

You can open this tin ___.

A - Ease

B - Easier

C - Easily

D - Easy

Answer : C

Explanation

The word here is being used as an adverb as it is modifying the action.

Q 4 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

It's raining ___ today.

A - Terribly

B - Terrible

C - More terrible

D - Most terrible

Answer : A

Explanation

The word here is being used as an adverb as it is modifying the action.

Q 5 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

Be ___ with this curry.

A - Careful

B - Carefully

C - Carefuller

D - More careful

Answer : A

Explanation

The word here is being used as an adverb as it is modifying the action.

Q 6 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

He talks so ___ that its impossible to make out what he is saying.

A - Fast

B - Fastly

C - Faster

D - Fastest

Answer : A

Explanation

The word here is being used as an adverb as it is modifying the action.

Q 7 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

The smell from the sewer was ___ The scum was ___ dense.

A - Awfully, awfully

B - Awfully, awful

C - Awful, awfully

D - Awful, awful

Answer : C

Explanation

The first word is an adjective as it is describing a noun; the second word is an adverb as it is modifying the action.

Q 8 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

Talk ___ now. The music is ___ so people will be disturbed.

A - Softly, softly

B - Soft, soft

C - Softly, soft

D - Soft, softly

Answer : C

Explanation

The first word is an adverb as it is modifying the action; the second word is an adjective as it is describing a noun.

Q 9 - Find the correct form of the word to use in the sentence −

She worked ___ with the radium stick. She was a ___ scientist.

A - careful, carefully

B - carefully, careful

C - careful, careful

D - carefully, carefully

Answer : B

Explanation

The first word is modifying the action, but the second word describing the object.

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