Adverbs

Exercise 4: Adverbs That Modify Adverbs

Directions: On your paper, write all of the adverbs in the following sentences.

1. You can be quite thoroughly informed about lighthouses if you read the right material.
2. The beam of a lighthouses penetrates remarkably far into the night.
3. Because of its location, the lighthouse worked really effectively to protect ships.
4. Early navigators were most often guided by fires along the shore.
5. Rather frequently, lights were put up at the net4ances of major ports.
6. The first light house, the Pharos of Alexandria, was on of the sven wonders of the world and was planned amazingly well.
7. It was so competently designed in 280 B. C. that reflectors from its wood fires made it visible from about thirty-five miles.
8. A famous lighthouse in Bologne, France, that stood until the seventeenth century was quite probably built by Emperor Caligula to commemorate his attempted invasion of England
9.  A Bostonian might very proudly note the fact that the first North American Lighthouse was erected in Boston harbor in 1716.
10. By the time of the American Revolution, twelve lighthouses had been most ably built by highly skilled workers in the colonies.
11. Even today, the Coast Guard officially maintains a number of lighthouses in the United States.
12. Whale- or fish-oil lamps were more commonly used in early lighthouses and worked reasonably well.
13. Electricity is now nearly always used as the power source for lighthouses, and incandescent lamps are most especially effective in creating powerful beams.
14. Do lighthouses differ very much in their outward appearance?
15. Considerably more often it is the climate that most significantly determines how a light house will be built.