ADVERBS

Study the sentences taken from the story that you have read. Take note of
the underlined words. Then answer the questions that follow.

The people of the village began to

gather in the square, between the
post office and the bank, around
ten o’clock; in some towns there
were so many people that the
lottery took two days and had to be
started on June 20th.
 School was recently over for the
summer, and the feeling of liberty
sat uneasily on most of them; they
tended to gather together quietly for
a while before they broke into
boisterous play, and their talk was
still of the classroom and the
teacher, of books and reprimands.
 Mr. Summers spoke
frequently to the villagers
about making a new box, but
no one liked to upset even as
much tradition as was
represented by the black box.
 Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had
argued, had been all very well when
the village was tiny, but now that the
population was more than three
hundred and likely to keep on
growing, it was necessary to use
something that would fit more easily
into the black box.
1. What are the different
elements of prose?
2. Give the different
adverbs that can be
found in the paragraph.
Adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb,
an adjective or another adverb.
Adverb of manner describes how an
action or activity is performed.
Ex.
1.The singers sing perfectly on the stage.
2. Super Typhoon Ompong damaged and
destroyed the place violently with its strong wind.
3. People have seriously felt the increase of basic
commodities.
Ex. angrily, badly, perfectly, easily, etc.
 
 Directions: Fill in the gap
with the correct adverb
inside the parentheses.
Write your answer in your
paper.
 Justice and fairness are (closely,
widely) __________ related terms
that are (often, surely) __________
used today (unequally,
interchangeably) __________.
While justice (usually, equally)
__________ has been used with
reference to a standard of rightness,
fairness often has been used with
regard to an ability to judge without
reference to one's feelings or
 fairness has also been
used to refer to the ability to
make judgments that are
not (overly, smoothly)
__________ general but
that are concrete and
specific to a particular case.
The most fundamental principle of
justice—one that has been (widely,
sadly) __________ accepted since it
was first defined by Aristotle (more
than thousand years ago,
immediatelly) __________ —is the
principle that "equals should be
treated (equally,firmly) __________
and unequals (unequally,nearly).
__________."