Formation of adverbs in English

The table below shows the way we form English adverbs.

Adverbs are usually formed by adding '-ly' to an adjective.	bad - badly quiet - quietly careful - carefully careless - carelessly
Adjectives ending in '-le' change to '-ly'.	possible - possibly probable - probably incredible - incredibly
Adjectives ending in '-y' change to '-ily': consonant + y Compare: vowel + y	lucky - luckily happy - happily angry - angrily day (noun) - daily
Delete -e and add -ly for endings in -le	noble - nobly
Adjectives ending in '-ic' change to '-ically'.	fantastic - fantastically basic - basically ironic - ironically scientific - scientifically
Some adjectives are irregular.	good - well hard - hard fast -fast