Select your subjects from Lesson 9, and construct twenty sentences having
modified subjects and modified predicates.

Impromptu Exercise.

Select sentences from Lessons 6, 7, and 11, and conduct the exercise as
directed in Lesson 10. Let the strife be to see who can supply the greatest
number of modifiers to the subject and to the predicate. The teacher can
vary this exercise.




LESSON 27.

ADVERBS.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--You have learned, in the preceding Lessons,
that the meaning of the predicate may be limited by modifiers, and that one
modifier may be joined to another. Words used to modify the predicate of a
sentence and those used to modify modifiers belong to one class, or one
_part of speech_, and are called +Adverbs+.

+T+.--_She decided too hastily_. What word tells how she decided?
+P+.---_Hastily_. +T+.--What word tells how hastily? +P+.--_Too_.
+T+.--What then are the words _too_ and _hastily?_ +P+.--Adverbs.

+T+.--_Too much time has been wasted_. What word modifies _much_ by telling
how much? +P+.--_Too_. +T+.--What _part of speech_ is _much?_ +P+.--An
adjective. +T+.--What then is _too?_ +P+.--An adverb.