I.  Tell the class of the following adverbs:

1. very
2. greatly
3. perhaps
4. therefore
5. below
6. tomorrow
7. when
8. there
9. purely
10. truly
11. always
12. continually
13. yesterday
14. why
15. sorrowfully
16. painfully
17. down
18. above
19. here
20. vainly
21. exceedingly

II. Point out the conjunctive adverbs in the following examples:

1. He will be prepared when the time arrives.
   The patriot answers whenever his country calls.
   Whittier
2. Whither I go ye cannot come.
3. It was for a long time uncertain where the gypsies originated.
4. Newton, only by profound study, discovered why an apple falls to the ground.
5. The Bible teaches us how to guide our steps aright.
6. Make  hay while the sun shines.
7. When a man’s coat is threadbare, it is easy to pick a hole in it. 

III.  Parse the adverbs, in the following examples. In addition, you may also parse the adjectives, the verbs, and the pronouns. As you work through this exercise, use the informatiion on the Parsing Model for Adverbs page.

1. He (Sir Thomas More) stands unchangeably on the centre of eternal right; his head, majestically erect, gloriously lifted up to heaven, bends not before the shock, and his breast receives the tempest only to shiver it
   Gilts
2. No human fancy can take in this mighty space in all its grandeur, and in all its immensity; can sweep the outer boundaries of such a creation; or lift itself up to the majesty of that great and invisible arm, on which all is suspended.
   Chalmers
3. Hitherto shalt them come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
   Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
   Shakespeare
4. When man is at peace with man, how much lighter than a feather are the heaviest metals in his hand.
   Sterne
5. Yet where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know?
   Goldsmith