Instructions: Find the adverbs and tell what they modify in the following sentences.
1. After the hike my muscles were extremely tired and very sore.
2. Yesterday I had hardly completed my very hard assignment when I was rudely
interrupted.
3. Gradually everyone reached the top of the mountain they had climbed
before.
4. Just now he remembered his rather important assignment.
5. Often you go too far with your jokes.
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Answers:
1. After the hike my muscles were extremely tired and very sore.
- extremely modifies tired
- very modifies sore
2. Yesterday I had hardly completed my very hard assignment when I was rudely
interrupted.
- yesterday and hardly modify had completed
- very
modifies hard
- rudely modifies was
interrupted
3. Gradually everyone reached the top of the mountain they had climbed
before.
- gradually modifies reached
- before
modifies had climbed
4. Just now he remembered his rather important assignment.
- just modifies now
- now modifies remembered
- rather modifies important
5. Often you go too far with your jokes.
- often modifies go
- too modifies far
- far modifies go