Nouns and pronouns are often added to verbs, verbals, adjectives, and adverbs, and so are used adverbially.

Exercise 127

Describe the nouns and pronouns used adverbially in these sentences:

1. She waited an hour.

2. She went a month later. (What word must you choose if you choose but one as an adjunct of the verb went? What does the noun month show? To what is it added?)

3. The book cost a dollar.

4. The fence is five feet high.

5. The range was twoscore spaces broad.

6. Monday she was unable to work.

7. The tree nearest the house is an elm.

8. She is much like her mother. (What word must yon choose if you take but one for the predicate attribute?)

9. This tomato weighs a pound. (What is the predicate attribute, if one word is chosen? What does it show? What does the word pound show? How, then, is it used?)

10. The reward is worth the effort.

11. The army retreated five miles.

12. She has gone East.

13. She talks like you.

14. Do not go near the cage.

15. She sang three times.

16. It cost a dollar a yard.

Exercise 128. Development

1. She gave me a book.

2. She told the child a story.

3. She made the baby a dress.

What kind of verbs are gave, told, and made? What is the object of each? Why is each of these words an object? Notice that I, the child, and the baby were indirectly affected by the acts expressed; that is, we were affected through receiving the book, the story, and the dress.

The pronoun me and the nouns child and baby are called indirect objects. They show what are indirectly affected by the acts expressed by the verbs. They are adjuncts of verbs, and so are used adverbially.