forming adverbs from adjectives:

Here are some guidelines on forming adverbs from adjectives:

In a large number of the cases, the adverb can be formed by simply adding ‘-ly’ to the adjective.

ADJECTIVE - ADVERB

Cheap - Cheaply

Quick - Quickly

Strong - Strong

If the adjective ends in with ‘y’, replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ and add ‘-ly’.

ADJECTIVE - ADVERB

Ready - Readily

Merry - Merrily

Easy - Easily

If the adjective ends with ‘-le’, replace the ‘e’ at the end with ‘y’.

ADJECTIVE - ADVERB

Understandable - Understandably

Forcible - Forcibly

Possible - Possibly

If the adjective ends with ‘-ic’, add ‘-ally’.

ADJECTIVE - ADVERB

Idiotic - Idiotically

Tragic - Tragically

Basic - Basically

An exception to this rule is ‘public’, whose adverbial form is ‘publicly’.

ADJECTIVE - ADVERB

Fast - Fast

Straight - Straight

Hard - Hard

In the case of the adjective ‘good’, the corresponding adverb is ‘well’.