adverbs

216 Substituting adverbs for adverbial phrases

9 The siek man asked in a complaining manner why no one ever visited him.

10    The ehairman of the company said rhat new techniąues had, in u veiy fundamental way, changed their production methods.

11    'The hngerprints proved beyond ciii doubt that Mr X was the murderer.

12    An avid reader, he reads all books without regard to dijferences in qi tali ty or theme.

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Instructions as for 239

judiciously conscientiously tremulously    inopportunely

hysterically    tirelessly

p rem a tu re ly    emo tio nally

wilfully

adroitly

lavishly

slavishly

inadvertently

conversely

yicariously

blindly

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The lost child gave its namc with a neroous and shakingvoice.

He did his work nu tli great care and thoroughness.

Knowing that the weather might ąuickly change for the worse, the climbers vety wisely took extra eąuipment with them.

The woman trapped in the blazing house was screaming with micontrollable emotion andfear.

Everyone agreed that the Seeretary General was a man who had worked for peace with miremitting ejfbrt.

Morę exports means, looking at the question from the oppositepoint of view, fewer goods for the home market.

Many people enjoy the thrills of climbing indirectly by reading of the e.iperience of oth ers.

This book, illustrated regard less ofe.\pense, makes a wonderful Christmas gift.

Having no mind of his own, the critic adopted with complete lack of originality the opinion of others.

The patient was, through an oversight, given the wrong prescription by the doctor.

The man in court was charged with obstructing the police with intention and detennination.

The revelation of the scandal occurred at a uety inconoenient tirne at the beginning of an election campaign.

Instructions as for 239

seyerely temperamentally wistfully apprehensively briskly characteristically leniently surreptitiously synthetically tentatively triumphantly arbitrarily aggressively persuasively scrupulously earnestly

We are now able to produce morę and morę raw materials by artificial means.

2    The winners of the football championship ran off the field carrying the silver cup and expressing theirpride in victory.

3    I suggested in a hesitating way that what my friend was doing was wrong.

4    Heavy rain hampered rescue operations in an extreme way.

5    Intending aircrew undergo searching tests to discover whether they are by disposition and character suitable for the work.

6    The thief took the goods in a way that no one would notice and left the shop.

7    A judge must always be perfectly and in mery way fair.

8    The children pressed their noses against the shop window and looked with unsatisfied longing at the goods inside.

9    The drunkard spoke in a ąuarrelsome way when asked by the police to accompany them to the police station.

10    We walked actively and with energy along the cliffs and soon became warm despite the cold wind.

11    The workers complained that their wagę claim had been rejected without impartial consideration by their employers.

12    The wife of the first man in spacc sat at home waiting with anxious fear for his return to earth.

239 Replace each group of words in italics by one of the adverbs givcn at the head of the exercise, making any necessary changes in punctuation and word order. For each of the four remaining adverbs, write a sentcnce illustrating its usc.

conceivably    stealthily    outspokenly    interminably

imaginatively    reluctantly    concurrendy    radically

indifferently    clandestinely    explicitlv    conclusively

substantially    superficially    ąuerulously    indiscriminatcly

1    Although unwilling to do so, he came to the conclusion that no better scheme was practicable.

2    The party leader’s speech secmed to go on and on without md.

3    The electorate viewed with lack of interest the prospect of a Communist government coming to power.

4    Until the new method had proved its worth, the management agreed that the old and the new should be uscd togetherat the same time.

5    The Secretary General said that the new plan the Russians had proposed was, in most respects, the same as the one that had been rejected earlier.

6    Having been officially banned, the political party was obliged to meet and operate in secret.

7    This course of action could, it may be imagined, lead to ruin.

8    A member of the audience voiced his objections without any rctieence or resetve.