adverbs

Adverb pairs

Some adverbs have two forms with completely different meanings. Do you know the difference between "hard" and "hardly"? What about "late" and "lately"?

Comparatives

There are two main forms of comparative and superlative adjectives in English: one-word forms and two-word forms. Here are some rules.

Expressing frequency simply

In this short test, all you have to do is move around the words to find the correct way to express how often something happens.

Today, we’re going to work on our grammar! The subject is adverbs. Some adverbs come in two forms, with and without –ly, and have two different meanings. In this exercise, you’ll hear some sentences without the adverb. Can you choose between the adverbial forms with and without the “-ly”?

Adverbs

German-speakers often confuse adjectives and adverbs, because in German these two parts of speech look identical. We show you how not to!

Translation mix-up of adverbs

In conversations, we use a lot of adverbs. In this exercise, we test whether you can translate common German adverbs into useful English ones.

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We can use adverbial expressions as time markers. Would you know how to use "while", "since", or "until" correctly? These are just three of the expressions that we test you on.

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