One should bear in mind that degree modifiers are adverbs which lack the primary characteristic of adverbs: the ability to modify verbs. They modify exclusively adjectives and adverbs. Arrange the qualifiers in bold type Exercise 17. according to the degree of intensity. 1. Hindsight, our cruelest and most astute adviser, so easily illuminates our errors of judgment, and yet in the middle of life one seizes upon things that seem to mean so much. 2. I saw Nathan sitting there nursing a bleeding elbow, tears in his eyes, the temptation to touch it growing ever stronger as he looked. 3. war is he said, and smiled “The over, right?” 4. He clutched his see a thing, and I face, couldn’t let go with the most almighty kick to his balls. 5. I had never believed myself to be anything other than honest, straight as a die, implacable almost in my attention to those things that were right and just and equitable. 6. There was blackness behind my eyelids, black and deep enough to swallow me. 7. People change a little every day, and sometimes you can meet someone down the road and they are utterly different from the person you thought they then sometimes were…but you who has changed, and they stay exactly the same, and it’s now you merely see them from a different point of view. 8. .And then suddenly, all too suddenly, she was gone, breezing past me with her grace, her beauty, the scent of something autumnal from her hair. 9. Hands big to enough floor Marty Hooper, sensitive enough to fold an origami bird in 10. Nathan came down a little later. I Benny’s Soda Shop. said nothing. 11. I was talking, rambling a I remember little… I was tired, really tired. 12. Perhaps mind was Maurice’s patterned with vivid images, contrasts which had made equally him a Socialist and which, even now, kept him one despite the knowledge, which surely he shared, that his creed would
One should bear in mind that degree modifiers are adverbs which lack the primary characteristic of adverbs: the ability to modify verbs. They modify exclusively adjectives and adverbs. Exercise 17. Arrange the qualifiers in bold type according to the degree of intensity. 1. Hindsight, our cruelest and most astute adviser, so easily illuminates our errors of judgment, and yet in the middle of life one seizes upon things that seem to mean so much. 2. I saw Nathan sitting there nursing a bleeding elbow, tears in his eyes, the temptation to touch it growing ever stronger as he looked. 3. “The war is over, right?” he said, and smiled 4. He clutched his face, couldn’t see a thing, and I let go with the most almighty kick to his balls. 5. I had never believed myself to be anything other than honest, straight as a die, implacable almost in my attention to those things that were right and just and equitable. 6. There was blackness behind my eyelids, black and deep enough to swallow me. 7. People change a little every day, and sometimes you can meet someone down the road and they are utterly different from the person you thought they were…but then sometimes it’s you who has changed, and they stay exactly the same, and now you merely see them from a different point of view. 8. .And then suddenly, all too suddenly, she was gone, breezing past me with her grace, her beauty, the scent of something autumnal from her hair. 9. Hands big enough to floor Marty Hooper, sensitive enough to fold an origami bird in Benny’s Soda Shop. 10. Nathan came down a little later. I said nothing. 11. I was talking, rambling a little… I remember I was tired, really tired. 12. Perhaps Maurice’s mind was patterned with equally vivid images, contrasts which had made him a Socialist and which, even now, kept him one despite the knowledge, which surely he shared, that his creed would