Adverbs #11: Modifying Verbs, Adjectives, and Other Adverbs Directions: Identify the adverb for each of the following sentences and identify the word that adverb is modifying (describing).
1. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
2. Yesterday, Mrs. Blue thoughtfully assigned two brief assignments. 3. Today, the students will arrive early.
4. She did well on the first test, but she failed the second test miserably. 5. The skaters put on a very exciting show.
6. The runner was an unusually fast starter.
7. Kangaroos are extremely fast animals.
8. They look quite awkward when they jump.
9. The great red kangaroo is surprisingly tall.
10.Before 1900, fingerprinting was very rarely used by the police.
11.People used their fingerprints quite often to protect themselves from forgers.
12.Fingerprinting has been used much longer than we ordinarily think.
13.The expert worked quite rapidly.