Practical Grammar and Composition Part 9

11. The bird warbles _sweet sweetly_.

12. He was _terrible terribly_ angry.

13. He was in a _terrible terribly_ dangerous place.

14. He talks _plainer more plainly_ than he ever did before.

15. The dead Roman looked _fierce fiercely_.

16. The fire burns _brilliant brilliantly_.

17. You are _exceeding exceedingly_ generous.

18. He struggled _manful manfully_ against the opposition.

19. My health is _poor poorly_.

20. He is sure surely a _fine fellow_.

21. Have everything _suitable suitably_ decorated.

22. That can be done _easy easily_.

23. I can speak _easier more easily_ than I can write.

24. The music of the orchestra was _decided decidedly_ poor.

25. She is a _remarkable remarkably_ beautiful girl.

26. The wind roared _awful awfully_.

27. The roar of the wind was _awful awfully_.

28. I have studied grammar _previous previously_ to this year.

29. I didn't study because I felt too _bad badly_ to read.

30. The roses smell _sweetly sweet_.

31. They felt very _bad badly_ at being beaten.

32. That violin sounds _different differently_ from this one.

33. The soldiers fought _gallant gallantly_.

34. She looks _sweet sweetly_ in that dress.

35. I can wear this coat _easy easily_.

36. Speak _gentle gently_ to him.

37. He talks _warm warmly_ on that subject.

38. He works _well good_ and _steady steadily_.

39. He stood _thoughtful thoughtfully_ for a moment and then went _quiet quietly_ to his tent.

40. He walked down the street _slow slowly_, but all the time looked _eager eagerly_ about him.

41. The music sounds _loud loudly_.

42. That coin rings _true truly_.

43. He looked _angry angrily_ at his cla.s.s.

44. He moved _silent silently_ about in the crowd.

45. His coat fits _nice nicely_.

46. That is _easy easily_ to do.

47. He went over the work very _thorough thoroughly_.

EXERCISE 19

_The adjectives and adverbs in the following sentences are correctly used. In every case show what they modify:_

1. The water lay smooth in the lake.

2. She looked cold.

3. The train runs smoothly now.

4. The sun shone bright at the horizon.

5. The sun shone brightly all day.

6. She looks coldly about her.

7. Be careful in your study of these sentences.

8. Study these sentences carefully.

9. We found the way easy.

10. We found the way easily.

11. He looked good.

12. He looked well.

13. We arrived safe.

14. We arrived safely.

15. Speak gently.

16. Let your speech be gentle.

EXERCISE 20

_Write sentences containing the following words correctly used:_

Thoughtful, thoughtfully, masterful, masterfully, hard, hardly, cool, coolly, rapid, rapidly, ungainly, careful, carefully, eager, eagerly, sweet, sweetly, gracious, graciously.

40. IMPROPER FORMS OF ADJECTIVES. The wrong forms in the following list of adjectives are frequently used in place of the right forms:

RIGHT WRONG everywhere everywheres not nearly nowhere near not at all not much or not muchly ill illy first firstly thus thusly much muchly unknown unbeknown complexioned complected

EXERCISE 21

_Correct the errors in the following sentences:_

1. She goes everywheres.

2. Hers is the most illy behaved child I know.

3. Not muchly will I go.

4. Use the lesser quant.i.ty first.

5. He is nowhere near so bright as John.

6. You do the problem thusly.

7. The causes are firstly, ignorance, and second, lack of energy.

8. They came unbeknown to me.

9. He is a dark complected man.

10. It all happened unbeknownst to them.

11. His vote was nowhere near so large as usual.

41. ERRORS IN COMPARISON are frequently made. Observe carefully the following rules:

1. The superlative should not be used in comparing only two things.

One should say, _He is the LARGER of the two_, not _He is the LARGEST of the two_. But, _He is the largest of the three_, is right.

2. A comparison should not be attempted by adjectives that express absolute quality--adjectives that cannot be compared; as, _round, perfect, equally, universal_. A thing may be _round_ or _perfect_, but it cannot be _more round_ or _most round_, _more perfect_ or _most perfect_.

3. When two objects are used in the comparative, one must not be included in the other; but, when two objects are used in the superlative, one must be included in the other. It is wrong to say, _The discovery of America was MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY geographical discovery_, for that is saying that the discovery of America was more important than itself--an absurdity. But it would be right to say, _The discovery of America was more important THAN ANY OTHER geographical discovery_. One should not say, _He is the most honest OF HIS fellow-workmen_, for he is not one of his fellow-workmen.

One should say, _He is more honest THAN ANY of his fellow-workmen_, or, _He is the most honest OF ALL the workmen_. To say, _This machine is BETTER THAN ANY machine_, is incorrect, but to say, _This machine is better THAN ANY OTHER machine_, is correct. To say, _This machine is the BEST OF ANY machine_ (or _any other machine_), is wrong, because all machines are meant, not one machine or some machines.

To say, _This machine is the BEST OF machines_ (or _the best of all machines_), is correct.

Note the following rules in regard to the use of _other_ in comparisons:

a. After comparatives followed by _than_ the words _any_ and _all_ should be followed by _other_.