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How do you form adverbs?

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A large number are formed by adding -LY to the adjective form:

bare - barely

odd - oddly

weird - weirdly

pitiful - pitifully

or replacing E with Y :

simple - simply

able - ably

or changing Y to I and adding LY:

happy - happily

hasty - hastily

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