Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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+T+.--Why is _too_ in the first sentence an adverb? Why is _too_ in the second sentence an adverb? Why is _hastily_ an adverb? Let the teacher use the following and similar examples, and continue the questions. _He thinks so. So much time has been wasted_. Let the teacher give verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and require the pupils to modify them by appropriate adverbs. +DEFINITION.--_An Adverb_ is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb+. Analysis and Parsing. Analyze, diagram, and parse the following sentences. +Model+.--_We have been very agreeably disappointed_. +Diagram+ as in. Lesson 25. For +Written Parsing+, use _Model_, Lesson 22, adding a column for adverbs. +Oral Parsing+.--_We_ is a pronoun, because----; _have been disappointed_ is a verb, because----; _very_ is an _adverb_, because it is joined to the adverb _agreeably_ to tell how agreeably; _agreeably_ is an _adverb_, because it is joined to the verb _have been disappointed_ to indicate manner. 1. The plough-boy plods homeward. 2. The water gushed forth. |
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