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28. Add details to the sentences from Activity 27 and include some actions

in the past.
• Look at the examples and write sentences in your notebook with the tale

you selected.

EXAMPLE

Sentences:
» A miller left his sons the few things he had for he was very poor.
The mill went to the first one, the donkey was left to the second,

and the cat went to the third.

» The young man was not very pleased with what he got because he didn’t know
how to take advantage of the cat. What could he do with a cat?

» The cat overheard his complaints and promised to make him rich and find him good
fortune. To accomplish this, he asked his master for a bag and a pair of boots.

29. Look at the fragments below and circle the adverb that best suits
the description.

The first/Another/The last time, he went and hid himself in a grain field. He Remember
Adverbs 1 he drew the strings, and caught them both. He presented these to the King, to modify its
again/once held his bag open and after/when a brace of partridges ran into it,
Adverbs can be
added to a verb
as he had done before/yesterday with the rabbit.
meaning. Usually,
At this commotion, the King put his head out of the coach window, and an adverb tells
finding it was the cat who had so never/often/always entertained him so, you when, where,
2 he commanded his guards to run immediately/slowly to assist the Marquis how, in what
of Carabas. While/Before/After they were helping the poor Marquis out of
the river, the cat came up to the coach and told the King that, while/before manner or to what
extent an action
his master was bathing, some rogues had come by and stolen his clothes. Many adverbs end
is performed.
session 9 3 fails to yield a plentiful harvest every/any year." how an action
"You see, sir," said the Marquis, "this is a meadow which always/never
in –ly, particularly
those that are
used to express

is performed.
• Discuss the following:
Although many
a) Do the fragments change depending on the adverbs? adverbs end –ly,
lots do not, e.g.,
b) Why do you think so? fast, never, well,
very, most, least,
more, less, now, far
and there.

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