LESSON LII.
Reading edition
PARSING OF ADVERBS.
To parse an adverb is to state the kind of adverb, its degree of comparison, if it has any, and what it modifies.
Model.—Now you may read it.
Now, an adverb of time, modifying the verb-phrase may read.
Model.—I know where you put it.
Where, a conjunctive adverb, showing place. It modifies put and connects the clause, [where] you put it with the clause, I know.
EXERCISE.
Parse the adverbs in the following sentences:—
1.He could not ever rue his marrying me.—Tennyson.
2.So those four abode within one house together.—Tennyson.
3.The boys waited eagerly for further experiments on the doctor’s patience.—Anstey.
4.Silently down from the mountain’s crown
The great procession swept.—Mrs. Alexander.
5.How closely he twineth, how tight he clings
To his friend, the huge oak-tree!—Dickens.
6.There was manhood’s brow serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth.—Hemans.
7.Aim straightly, fire steadily! spare me
A ball in the body which may
Deliver my heart here, and tear me
This badge of the Austrian away!—Mrs. Browning.
8.Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak people do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true.—Sheridan.
9.Again I looked at the snow-fall,
And thought of the leaden sky
That arched o’er our first great sorrow,
When that mound was heaped so high.—Lowell.