SOURCE: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/about-adjectives-and-adverbs/adverbs-forms Adverbs: forms [from English Grammar Today]
Adverbs ending in -ly Adverbs have a strong connection with adjectives. Adjectives and adverbs are usually based on the same word. Adverbs often have the form of an adjective + -ly.
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Adverbs ending in -ly are usually adverbs of manner (slowly) and degree (completely, fairly).
Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -l have double l:
beautiful → beautifully, careful → carefully, hopeful → hopefully, historical → historically Magda looked hopefully at her mother. Historically, there was never any conflict between the two communities. Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -y change the y to i:
easy → easily, busy → busily, lucky → luckily, angry → angrily Luckily, I had a backup copy of the data on a disk. I’ve never seen him react so angrily. Adverbs ending in a consonant +e keep the e:
definite → definitely, fortunate → fortunately, extreme → extremely, absolute → absolutely I am extremely grateful to you. We were absolutely exhausted at the end of it all.