A New English Grammar for Schools; Being a Revised Edition of "a Practical Grammar of the English Language"

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: American Book Company Description: At head of title and on cover: Harvey's new language course. Subjects: English language Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL ELEMENTS 37 XXVII. LETTER WRITING Write a letter to your teacher telling her what studies you find most troublesome and asking her to advise you what steps to take to improve in them. Be careful to punctuate and capitalize your letter correctly. XXVIII. ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL ELEMENTS Birds sing sweetly. In this sentence the word "sweetly" denotes not what the birds sing, but how they sing. It does not complete the meaning of the verb "sing" like an objective element, but modifies the verb in another way. You are very kind. What word is modified by "very"? What part of speech is "kind"? He writes too carelessly. In this sentence the word " carelessly " tells how he writes. " Too " modifies " carelessly," telling how carelessly. A letter hastily written was sent me. What does " hastily " modify ? What part of speech is " written " ? Words used like " sweetly," " very," " too," and " hastily " are called adverbs. An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, a participle, or another adverb. Ex. -- " He runs swiftly.'' " He is very tall." " The bell ringing sharply disturbed us." " He came too slowly." Point out the adverbs, verbs, and adjectives in the following sentences : -- i. He who gives cheerfully gives twice. 2. His affairs were managed imprudently. 3. Proceed slowly and cautiously. 4. We shall never see his like again. 5. You have not acted wisely. 6. We must study diligently. 7. Our dinner, cooked hastily, ...