Exercise
Parse all the adverbs in the following sentences:--
1. Now the earth is so full that a drop overfills it.
2. The higher we rise in the scale of being, the more certainly we
quit the region of the brilliant eccentricities and dazzling contrasts
which belong to a vulgar greatness.
3. We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
How the sap creeps up and blossoms swell.
4. Meanwhile the Protestants believed somewhat doubtfully that he was
theirs.
5. Whence else could arise the bruises which I had received, but from
my fall?
6. We somehow greedily gobble down all stories in which the characters
of our friends are chopped up.
7. How carefully that blessed day is marked in their little calendars!
8. But a few steps farther on, at the regular wine-shop, the Madonna
is in great glory.
9. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
10. It is the Cross that is first seen, and always, burning in the
center of the temple.
11. For the impracticable, however theoretically enticing, is always
politically unwise.
12. Whence come you? and whither are you bound?
13. How comes it that the evil which men say spreads so widely and
lasts so long, whilst our good kind words don't seem somehow to take
root and blossom?
14. At these carousals Alexander drank deep.
15. Perhaps he has been getting up a little architecture on the road
from Florence.
16. It is left you to find out why your ears are boxed.
17. Thither we went, and sate down on the steps of a house.
18. He could never fix which side of the garden walk would suit him
best, but continually shifted.
19. But now the wind rose again, and the stern drifted in toward the
bank.
20. He caught the scent of wild thyme in the air, and found room to
wonder how it could have got there.
21. They were soon launched on the princely bosom of the Thames, upon
which the sun now shone forth.
22. Why should we suppose that conscientious motives, feeble as they
are constantly found to be in a good cause, should be omnipotent for
evil?
24. It was pretty bad after that, and but for Polly's outdoor
exercise, she would undoubtedly have succumbed.
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