Rule

RULE XI. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, and sometimes phrases and clauses. Some adverbs are used with the force of adjectives.

EXERCISES

1. Thrice did she sink adown.

2. Gayly the troubadour touched his guitar.

3. Ever of thee I am fondly dreaming.

4. The upper crust here are Peel, Stanley, Graham, and

So on.

5. We went straight down the crooked lane, and all around the square.

6. There is a higher law. He half knows everything.

7. We have long been friends together, we have loved each other well.

8. The worn-out word, Alone, is so idly spoken, so coldly heard.

9. Near the lake there drooped a willow, long time ago. 10. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon,

As the very best gem upon her zone.

II. The silent organ loudest chants the master's requiem.

12. A cold and clear-cut face I found, perfectly beautiful. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,

Dead perfection.

13. This child is not mine;

I cannot sing it to rest;

I cannot lift it up fatherly, and bless it.

14. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight;
Make me a child again, just for to-night.

TE Hitherto shalt thou come but no further He smelleth

16. Truly the light is sweet. Man shall not live by bread only.

17. Thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Life's poor play is o'er.

18. Outsteps with cautious foot and slow,

And quick, keen glances to and fro,

The outlaw.

19. I have almost matter enough.

roaring.

Almost nothing sees miracles.

My tongue cannot impart

My almost drunkenness of heart.

He cried almost to

20. We do not act that often jest and laugh.

21. The wills above be done. Well, the gods are above. The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies.

22. I am serious: you must be so too. The way hence is your return home.

23. Here follow her vices, close at the heel of her virtues. 24. This concurs directly with the letter. Right through the line they broke.

25. Here all their rage and even their murmurs cease.

Thou wert dignified enough, even to the point of envy. 26. I have been a mother: I am no longer so.

27. Just for a handful of silver he left us,

Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

28. Then there is all the more reason for caution.

29. Surely ye are the people.

30. The messenger seemed greatly at a loss.

31. Here are apples enough, ripe enough, and big enough.

IX.

ADVERBIAL OBJECTIVE USE OF NOUNS

objective

Nouns used as adjective modifiers have a special case Adverbial rm, the possessive, or they are joined to the modified un by a preposition. Some nouns expressing measwhether value, weight, distance, dimension, or

re,

words

me, and some nouns of time, manner, and the place Meaning of o which, are used without change of form, and with no onnecting word, to modify a verb, adjective, adverb, and

ometimes a noun retaining a verbal notion :-

The river is a mile wide.

The house is four miles distant.

The pygmy is scarcely three feet high.

He cut his visit one day short.

I like a house facing two ways.

His face was one-half black.

With adverbs,

This is a deal more expensive.

The lighter rider was several pounds more heavily

weighted.

They live a long distance off.

He may stay a week longer.

With adjectives

With adverbs

Case determined

We await his return home.

They met him on his visit West.

I will relate my dream last night.

He mentioned his wanderings that year.

He had a pleasant journey this way.

The inflected pronouns are not used in this construction, and the form of the noun in modern English does not show the objective case. The usage of cognate languages, however, as well as the fact that the same relation may be expressed by a preposition and its object, indicates that the noun thus used is in the objective case:

He stayed a day = He stayed during a day.

He comes full speed = He comes at full speed.

It is three inches longer It is longer by three inches.

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It is worth the trouble = It is worthy of the trouble.

Occasionally, the adverbial objective following an

Made subject intransitive verb is made subject of the verb in the passive voice

The horse trotted a mile in three minutes.

The mile was trotted in three minutes.

He walked twenty miles a day.

The twenty miles were walked in a day.

Note. In such expressions as, He comes nights, Sundays, and holidays, the time at which was formerly expressed by the possessive, as it is in German now. We have come to think of these words, however, as plurals in the objective, and so write them. The adverb needs, and the compounds of ways, times, wise, and days have the como