(Adverbs of quantity, comparison)
—Walk along the hall swinging your arms somewhat.
Walk along the hall swinging your arms a great deal.
—Bend your head a little.
Bend your head much.
—Walk slowly to the window.
Walk less slowly to the window.
Walk more slowly to the window.
—Place on the table your most beautiful drawing.
—Place on the table your beautiful drawing.
—Make a broad mark on the blackboard.
Make a very broad mark on the blackboard.
Group D
(Adverbs of comparison, correlative adverbs)
—Look for a piece of cloth softer than velvet.
—Look for a piece of cloth as soft as velvet.
—Find among your colors a shade as black as the blackboard.
—Find a piece of cloth not so shiny as satin.
—Find among the plane insets a rectangle as broad as half the square.
—Bring a rod longer than your copy-book.
—Bring a rod as long as your copy-book.
—Bring a rod not so long as your copy-book.
—Find a piece of cloth less rough than the canvas.
Permutations
The sentences to be analyzed are reproduced as usual by building the first sentence on each slip; and then, by changing the adverb, the child gets the second or third sentence. One of the first permutations is to remove the adverb from those sentences where it performs the function of an adjective to the verb, thereby causing one action to be changed into another. For example take the two sentences:
Walk slowly to the window.
Walk rapidly to the window.
Taking away the adverb we have:
Walk to the window.