ADVERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO USE
[Sidenote: _Simple._]
285. All adverbs which have no function in the sentence except to
modify are called simple adverbs. Such are most of those given
already in Sec. 282.
[Sidenote: _Interrogative._]
286. Some adverbs, besides modifying, have the additional function
of asking a question.
[Sidenote: _Direct questions._]
These may introduce direct questions of--
(1) Time.
_When_ did this humane custom begin?--H. CLAY.
(2) Place.
_Where_ will you have the scene?--LONGFELLOW
(3) Manner.
And _how_ looks it now?--HAWTHORNE.
(4) Degree.
"_How_ long have you had this whip?" asked he.--BULWER.
(5) Reason.
_Why_ that wild stare and wilder cry?--WHITTIER
Now _wherefore_ stopp'st thou me?--COLERIDGE
[Sidenote: _Indirect questions._]
Or they may introduce indirect questions of--
(1) Time.
I do not remember _when_ I was taught to read.--D. WEBSTER.
(2) Place.
I will not ask _where_ thou liest low.--BYRON
(3) Manner.
Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select
souls, or _how_ to say anything to such?--EMERSON.
(4) Degree.
Being too full of sleep to understand
_How_ far the unknown transcends the what we know.
--LONGFELLOW
(5) Reason.
I hearkened, I know not _why_.--POE.
287. There is a class of words usually classed as conjunctive
adverbs, as they are said to have the office of conjunctions in
joining clauses, while having the office of adverbs in modifying; for
example,--
_When_ last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.--BYRON.
But in reality, _when_ does not express time and modify, but the whole
clause, _when_..._eyes_; and _when_ has simply the use of a
conjunction, not an adverb. For further discussion, see Sec. 299 under
"Subordinate Conjunctions."
Exercise.--Bring up sentences containing twenty adverbs,
representing four classes.
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