EXERCISE LXV.
Distinguish between—
1. We found the way easy (easily).
2. The prunes are boiling soft (softly).
3. He appeared prompt (promptly).
4. It looks good (well).
5. We arrived safe (safely).
EXERCISE LXVI.
Which of the italicized words is preferable? Give the reason:—
1. Velvet feels smooth (smoothly).
2. Clouds sail slow (slowly) through the air.
3. This carriage rides easy (easily).
4. How sweet (sweetly) these roses smell!
5. They felt very bad (badly) at being beaten.[115]
6. Your piano sounds different (differently) from ours.
7. The storm is raging furious (furiously).
8. This milk tastes sour (sourly).
9. The soldiers fought gallant (gallantly).
10. She looked cold (coldly) on his offer of marriage.
11. Ethel looks sweet (sweetly) in a white gown.
12. How beautiful (beautifully) the stars appear to-night!
13. This coat goes on easy (easily).
14. How beautiful (beautifully) Katharine looks this morning.
15. Luther stood firm (firmly) in spite of abuse.
16. It looks strange (strangely) to see you here.
17. Deal gentle (gently) with them.
18. The cry sounded shrill (shrilly).
19. Larks sing sweet (sweetly).
20. He felt awkward (awkwardly) in the presence of ladies.
21. He has acted strange (strangely).
22. The water feels warm (warmly).
23. We feel warm (warmly) on that subject.
24. The dead warrior looked fierce (fiercely).
25. The wind blows very cold (coldly) to-day.
26. War clouds rolling dim (dimly).
27. The shutters are painted green (greenly).
28. She works good (well) and neat (neatly).
29. Protestants believe that the bread of the Lord's supper is not real (really) changed, but remains real (really) bread.
30. Homer says the blood of the gods is not real (really) blood, but only something like it.
31. Real (really) kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
Alone, only.—"In the Bible and earlier English alone is often used for the adverb only, but it is now becoming restricted to its own sense of 'solitary,' 'unaccompanied by other persons or things';"[116] as, "He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone." Only is both adjective and adverb.
[115] See "Foundations," p. 121.
[116] The Century Dictionary.
EXERCISE LXVII.
Fill each blank with the proper word ("only," "alone"):—
1. She —— of all the family had courage to go —— into that darkened room.
2. These books are sold in sets ——.
3. Man cannot live on bread ——.
4. This fault —— is enough to make her disagreeable.
5. By chance —— did he escape the gallows.
6. Not —— at Ephesus, but throughout all Asia, Paul persuaded many people.
7. To be successful a school paper must be supported, not —— with subscriptions, but also with contributions.
Omitted Adverbs.[117]—Adverbs necessary to the sense should not be omitted. This fault is especially common after so, too, and very—words which, as they express degree, properly qualify adjectives or adverbs, and not verbs or participles; also after behave, which, like the noun "behavior," requires a qualifying word to determine the meaning.