EXERCISE 46–17 Parts of speech: adverbs
For each sentence, indicate which of the three underlined words is an adverb. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
1 of 10
Clean water is very scarce in some parts of the world.
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2 of 10
Swimming with dolphins is an experience I will never forget.
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| B. |
| C. |
3 of 10
On a clear day, Mount Rainier can be easily seen from Seattle.
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| B. |
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4 of 10
The exchange student could not understand my mother’s heavily accented English.
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| B. |
| C. |
5 of 10
The hopeful applicants studied intensely for the citizenship test.
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| B. |
| C. |
6 of 10
Most babies get their lower front teeth first.
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| B. |
| C. |
7 of 10
Despite the threatening clouds, we were not allowed to bring our umbrellas into the stadium.
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| B. |
| C. |
8 of 10
Writers of historical fiction often bend the truth to tell a good story.
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| B. |
| C. |
9 of 10
Ordinary census records sometimes provide an astonishing level of detail about the past.
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| B. |
| C. |
10 of 10
At our first lesson, we only talked about surfing; we didn’t even get our feet wet.
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