Exercise.
Tell what the adverb modifies in each quotation, and see if it is placed in the proper position:—
1. Only the name of one obscure epigrammatist has been embalmed for us in the verses of his rival.—Palgrave.
2. Do you remember pea shooters? I think we only had them on going home for holidays.—Thackeray.
3. Irving could only live very modestly. He could only afford to keep one old horse.—Id.
4. The arrangement of this machinery could only be accounted for by supposing the motive power to have been steam.—Wendell Phillips.
5. Such disputes can only be settled by arms.—Id.
6. I have only noted one or two topics which I thought most likely to interest an American reader.—N. P. Willis.
7. The silence of the first night at the farmhouse,—stillness broken only by two whippoorwills.—Higginson.
8. My master, to avoid a crowd, would suffer only thirty people at a time to see me.—Swift.
9. In relating these and the following laws, I would only be understood to mean the original institutions.—Id.
10. The perfect loveliness of a woman's countenance can only consist in that majestic peace which is founded in the memory of happy and useful years.—Ruskin.
11. In one of those celestial days it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once.—Emerson.
12. My lord was only anxious as long as his wife's anxious face or behavior seemed to upbraid him.—Thackeray.
13. He shouted in those clear, piercing tones that could be even heard among the roaring of the cannon.—Cooper.
14. His suspicions were not even excited by the ominous face of Gérard.—Motley.
15. During the whole course of his administration, he scarcely befriended a single man of genius.—Macaulay.
16. I never remember to have felt an event more deeply than his death.—Sydney Smith.
17. His last journey to Cannes, whence he was never destined to return.—Mrs. Grote.