Exercise 309. Review

What is an adverb?

Show that adverbs may be added to verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and verbals.

Write sentences illustrating at least five different ideas that may be expressed by adverbs.

The Conjunctive Adverbs

Exercise 310. Development

1. He has gone to New York, where his parents live.

Analyze the sentence. What clause do you find? What kind of clause is it? Why?

What idea does where express? Put there in its place and read the sentence. You see the original sentence has become two sentences, which must be written thus: He has gone to New York. There his parents live.

Since the words, where his parents live, are a clause joined to the noun New York, while the words, There his parents live, are a complete sentence and are not joined to any element, what must join the clause to the noun New York?

What part of speech is there? Why? What part of speech is where? Why? How many uses has where?

2. This is the reason why I went.

What kind of clause do you find in the sentence? Put the phrase for this reason in place of why. You see the one sentence becomes two: This is the reason. For this reason I went What must join the clause to the noun reason?

Analyze the sentence that has been made from the clause. How is the phrase for this reason used? Why? How must why be used? How many uses has why?

3. The children now play where their fathers fought.

What kind of clause do you find in the sentence?

What idea does where suggest? Put there in its place. How does this change affect the clause?

Since the change of where to there makes an independent sentence out of the adverbial clause, what must join the clause to the verb play in the original sentence?

How is the word there in the new sentence used? Then what use must where have in the clause?

How many uses has where?

Words used both as clause connectives and as adverbs in the clause are called conjunctive adverbs. How many have we found?