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GRAMMATICAL HOMONYMS
Exercise 1. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a modal word, or a particle.
1.
Miss Whitmore was
truly
taken by surprise. (Dreiser)2....the time had come in which she must speak to him
truly
. (Trollope)3. The hall looked
exactly
as it did when he used to dine there with Jack Herring. (Galsworthy)4. My mother knew so
exactly
how to dress. 5. You are coming
right
out into life — facing it all. (Wells)6. She would never persuade them that she had done
right
. (Wells)7. "You will be sure to come?" said Mr. Snodgrass. "Oh,
certainly
." (Dickens)8. Soames smiled.
Certainly
Uncle James had a way with him. (Galsworthy)9. Lammlein rose. "We have fulfilled our obligations," he said pompously, and yet not quite
certainly
. (Heym)10. Tom, you'll manage it and if you do I'll give you something
ever
so nice. (Twain)11. I don't think I shall ever be afraid of you again, Bessie. (Си. Bronte) 12. Fleur having declared that it was "
simply
too wonderful to stay indoors," they all went out. (Galsworthy)13.-She looked at him
simply
, directly... (Dreiser)14. They
just
came in. They are sitting in number 7 booth. (This is America)15. I'll
just
tap and ask them to come out. (Dreiser)16. I don't know
just
what to do. (Dreiser)17. What are they that they should judge us?
Yet
they do unhesitatingly. (Shaw)18. There was
yet
another source of difference between us. (Dickens)19. But the gentleman had not finished his requests
yet
. (Priestley) 20. "I had another reason for suspecting the deceased woman," he said, "which appears to me to have been stronger
still."
(Collins)21. He had no purpose in going about the room, but he was not
still
a moment. (Dickens)22....Charlie felt sure that she was
still
somewhere in London. (Priestley) 23. Old Mr. Ablewhite
never
made his appearance that night. (Collins)24. Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject. She
never
saw him strike or heard him abuse me. (Ch. Bronte)25. To be loved beautifully was
surely
the crown and climax of her being. (Wells)26. Slowly,
surely
, with the secret inner process that works the destruction of an old tree, the poison of the wounds to his happiness, his will, his pride, had corroded the comely edifice of his philosophy. (Galsworthy)27. In turn, each of these brothers was very different from the other, yet they,
too
, were alike. (Galsworthy) 28. They said of him that he was
too
serious. (This is America)
Exercise 2. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb or a preposition.
1. Somebody
outside
pulled at the door. (Greene) 2.
Outside
it was getting dark. (Hemingway)3. It was a nice little place and he liked the high mountain hauling up
beyond
. (Hemingway)4.
Outside
, and
beyond
the road, lay the Park. (Murdoch)5. There, just
inside
the door, stood a wide, shallow tray full of pots of pink lilies. (Mansfield)6. It was dark
inside
. (Hemingway)7. He wandered
down
the street again. (Lindsay)8. He dressed for dinner early and was first
down
. (Galsworthy)9. I drove back
up
the narrow road. (Hemingway)10. They mounted
up
and
up
, through the musty smell of an old close house, little used, to a large garret bedroom. (Dickens)II. It was just that he had never really looked into a human face
before
. (Warren)12. The afternoon
before
the attack was spent in putting the boats ready.
Exercise 3. State whether the boldfaced word is an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or a postposition.
1. They were reluctant to interfere
in
their niece's private affairs. (Lindsay) 2. A cool March air came