ADVERBIAL NOUN PHRASES.

Exercise 2.

1. About an hour later a big red fox came trotting into the glade.
(A) an hour
(B) later
(C) into the glade

2. When the stone was pulled up, there appeared a staircase about three or four feet deep.
(A) three or four feet
(B) deep
(C) up

3. The trail was perhaps an hour old.
(A) perhaps
(B) an hour
(C) old

4. After viewing old Fort Snelling, we walked a mile farther to the parade ground.
(A) farther
(B) a mile
(C) to the parade ground

5. An ordinary wolf's forefoot is four and one half inches long.
(A) long
(B) four and one half inches
(C) wolf's

6. Lobo stood three feet high at the shoulder.
(A) three feet
(B) high
(C) at the shoulder

7. If the crows do not kill the owl, they at least worry him half to death and drive him twenty miles away.
(A) away
(B) twenty miles
(C) half

8. It is a curious fact about boys that two will be a great deal slower in doing anything than one.
(A) slower
(B) a great deal
(C) in doing

9. When the eagle returned an hour later to the point of shoals, the net looked less strange to him.
(A) later
(B) an hour
(C) to the point

10. Twenty-five years ago the American minister at the court of Turin was conversing with a young Italian.
(A) ago
(B) Twenty-five years
(C) at the court