Underscore all adverbs in the following sentences:

  1. He will not come today.
  2. Here and now is the day of opportunity.
  3. Very slowly, but even then entirely too rapidly, the fire crept forward.
  4. The room was very quiet and still.
  5. He was too weary to go farther.
  6. One must learn to feel deeply and think clearly in order to express himself eloquently.
  7. Ferrer stood there, so calmly and so bravely facing the firing squad.
  8. He was condemned to death because he stood uncompromisingly and courageously for the education of the masses.
  9. Ferrer understood thoroughly that the schools of today cleverly and effectively adapt their teaching to maintain the present system of society.
  10. He said "The school imprisons the children physically, intellectually and morally."

WORDS USED IN PLACE OF NOUNS

42. Now we come to study another class of words which are also very necessary in order to express our ideas. Suppose you had just arrived in a strange town and you wanted to find the way to a friend's house. You inquire of a stranger, "Can you tell me who lives in the house on the corner?"

Notice the words you and me and who. You could not call the stranger by name for you do not know his name, and hence you say you. And if you used your own name instead of me, he would not recognize it, and you would both be puzzled to find a substitute for that little word who.

If you knew the stranger and he knew your name, you might say, "Can Mr. Smith tell Mr. Jones what person lives in the house on the corner." But this would sound very stilted and unnatural and awkward. So we have these little words like you and me and who, which we use in place of nouns. These words are called pronouns. This word is taken from the Latin also. In the Latin the word pro means in place of. So the word pronoun means literally in place of a noun.

43. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.

These pronouns are very useful little words. They save us a great deal of tiresome repetition. Notice the awkwardness of the following:

And yet this would be the way we would have to express this idea if we did not have pronouns. Instead we say: