ADVERBS.

Instructions: Select all the adverbs in the following sentences. Then choose the correct answers for the questions below.

Sentences:

1. People with lanterns rushed hither and thither.
2. The island is separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creek.
3. And so the teacher turned him out, And still he lingered near, And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear.
4. Faintly, in gentle whiffs, the lilies on the low marble shelf threw off their delicate fragrance.
5. Quackalina was sitting happily among the reeds with her dear ones under her wings, while Sir Sooty waddled proudly around her.
6. In youth the tulip tree has a trunk peculiarly smooth.
7. On one occasion Gypsy put in her head, and lapped up six custard pies that had been placed by the casement to cool.
8. No wild animals were ever trained by the ancients.
9. The paper was passed skillfully from desk to desk until it finally reached my hands.
10. Messua's husband had some remarkably fine buffaloes that worried him exceedingly.
11. The charcoal burners went off very valiantly in single file.
12. Sometimes my head almost aches with the variety of my knowledge.
13. Knots of gossips lingered here and there near the place.
14. This talk amused me greatly, but it went in at one ear and out at the other.
15. My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
16. Yonder I shall sit down and get knowledge.
17. Then he would crawl forward inch by inch, and wait till the seal came up to breathe.
18. No one can work well without sleep.
19. This jackal was peculiarly low, a cleaner-up of village rubbish heaps, desperately timid, or wildly bold, everlastingly hungry, and full of cunning that never did him any good.
20. The Black Panther raised his head and yawned—elaborately, carefully, and ostentatiously.