Add -ly, Say It Better: Suffixes (-ly Forming Adverbs) for Class 4

Want your Grade 4 child to write sentences that are more expressive, precise, and polished? This engaging worksheet on Suffixes (-ly forming adverbs) teaches students how adding just two letters to an adjective can completely transform it into a powerful adverb — one that brings verbs and sentences to life!

Designed for Class 4 learners, this worksheet focuses on ten key adjectives — quick, loud, happy, brave, neat, soft, cheerful, graceful, careful, and free — and their -ly adverb forms: quickly, loudly, happily, bravely, neatly, softly, cheerfully, gracefully, carefully, and freely. Students learn how the suffix -ly works, how to form adverbs correctly, and how to use them accurately in a variety of sentence contexts.

Why Suffixes (-ly Forming Adverbs) Matter in English?

Understanding how the -ly suffix forms adverbs is a foundational grammar skill for Grade 4 learners, and here is why:

1. It helps students describe how an action is performed, making their writing more vivid and detailed.

2. It builds word formation awareness, helping students expand vocabulary by recognising patterns.

3. It strengthens sentence construction by teaching students the difference between adjectives and adverbs.

4. It prepares students for more complex grammar concepts in higher grades, such as adverb placement and degree.

What's Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes five well-structured activities that guide students from recognising -ly adverbs to using them fluently:

Exercise 1 – Match the Following

Students match each adjective on the left (quick, happy, loud, brave, soft, neat, cheerful, careful, graceful, free) to its correct -ly adverb on the right (quickly, happily, loudly, bravely, softly, neatly, cheerfully, carefully, gracefully, freely). This activity builds the foundational skill of forming adverbs from adjectives using the -ly suffix.

Exercise 2 – Sort the Words

Students sort fifteen word pairs into Adverb and Non-Adverb columns. Pairs include carefully/free, neat/bravely, happily/loud, quickly/soft, Slow/Slowly, day/nightly, happy/loudly, neatly/brave, cheerfully/care, graceful/freely, nicely/walk, highly/dance, totaly/small, hot/sadly, and quickly/soft. This activity develops the ability to distinguish correctly formed -ly adverbs from adjectives, nouns, or incorrectly formed words.

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks

Students choose the correct -ly adverb from a given pair to complete ten real-life sentences — such as selecting ""quickly"" for Arun finishing before time, or ""gracefully"" for a gymnast balancing on a beam. This tests both adverb recognition and contextual application.

Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions

Ten multiple-choice questions ask students to identify the correct -ly adverb, spot the sentence that uses an adverb correctly, or pick out which word is not an adverb. This format strengthens both grammar knowledge and analytical thinking.

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting

Students rewrite ten sentences by replacing the incorrectly used adjective form with its correct -ly adverb. For example, ""He quick ran to catch the school bus"" is rewritten as ""He quickly ran to catch the school bus."" This is the most hands-on activity, pushing students to apply their understanding of suffix rules in a practical, meaningful way.

Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Match the Following

quick → quickly

happy → happily

loud → loudly

brave → bravely

soft → softly

neat → neatly

cheerful → cheerfully

careful → carefully

graceful → gracefully

free → freely

Exercise 2 – Sort the Words

Adverb

Slow/Slowly

day/nightly

happy/loudly

cheerfully/care

graceful/freely

neat/bravely

neatly/brave

happily/loud

quickly/soft

hot/sadly

Non Adverb

carefully/free

quickly/soft

nicely/walk

highly/dance

totaly/small

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks

1. quickly

2. loudly

3. softly

4. bravely

5. neatly

6. cheerfully

7. carefully

8. gracefully

9. freely

10. happily

Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions

1. d) quickly

2. c) She sang loudly.

3. c) softly

4. b) cheerful

5. a) gracefully

6. c) carefully

7. b) happily

8. d) cheerfully

9. c) He ran quickly to gate.

10. a) freely

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting (Correct Answers)

1. He quickly ran to catch the school bus.

2. The butterfly freely fluttered in the meadow.

3. Rohan bravely jumped over the wide ditch.

4. Neha neatly arranged her books on the shelf.

5. The children cheerfully decorated the classroom.

6. He softly knocked on the principal's door.

7. She gracefully twirled during the dance performance.

8. They carefully crossed the busy road together.

9. She loudly recited the poem in the hall.

10. He happily waved when he saw his friend.

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