nt :. g. Now the grey cub lived all his days on a level floor. [3, p. 73] time past :. g. Forgotten already were the vanquished rivals and the love-tale red-written on the snow. [3, p. 47] time to come :. g. I ll tie em up out of reach of each other tonight, Bill said, as they took the trail. [3, p. 22] ll have to cheer him up tomorrow. [3, p. 27] time relative :. g. In midsummer White Fang had an experience. [3, p. 141] time absolute:
E. g. Continually changing its intensity and abruptly variant in pitch, it impinged on his nerves and senses, made him nervous and restless and worried a him with a perpetual imminence of happening. [3, p. 103]
Of time repeated: .g. Or again, he would be in the pen of Beauty Smith. [3, p. 261]
) adverbs of frequency: .g. Several times they encountered solitary wolves. [3, p. 48] was always a little demon of fury when he chanced upon a stray ptarmigan. [3, p. 84]
He ll never stand the climate! he shouted back. [3, p. 223] Fang tried the trick once too often. [3, p. 182]
3) adverbs of place and direction
E. g. They were evidently coming down the creek from some prospecting trip. [3, p. 186] Smith s remaining leg left the ground, and his whole body seemed to lift into the air as he turned over backward and struck the snow. [3, p. 187] did not remain in one place, but travelled across country until they regained the Mackenzie River, down which they slowly went, leaving it often to hunt game along the small streams that entered it, but always returning to it again [3, p. 48] as they had been originally to get to the Inside. [3, p. 221]
4) adverbs of manner
E. g. His allegiance to man seemed somehow a law of his being greater than the love of liberty, of kind and kin. [3, p. 137] seem to satisfy his master, who flung him down roughly in the bottom of the canoe. [3, p. 111]
What d ye think? Scott queried eagerly. [3, p. 194] began to eat sleepinly.Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and to obey the strong. [3, p. 131]
) adverbs of degree: .g. He ll learn soon enough. [3, p. 226] was too busy and happy to know that he was happy. [3, p. 77] he perceived that they were very little, and he became bolder. [3, p.76] of degree or intensifiers may be subdivided into three semantic groups:
emphasizers (emphasizing the truth of the communication):
E.g. And, first, last and most of all, he hated Beauty Smith. [3, p. 173]
amplifiers (expressing a high degree):
E.g. He could not quite suppress a snarl, but he made no offer to snap. [3, p. 95]
They re pretty wise, them dogs. [3, p. 8] very atmosphere he breathed was surcharged with hatred and malice. [3, p. 151]
downtoners (lowering the effect):
E.g. It ran below its ordinary speed. [3, p. 43]
He dared not risk a flight with this young lightning - flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age. [3, p. 141]
) Focusing adverbs :) restrictive: .g. They alone moved through the vast inertness. [3, p. 44] securely, White Fang could only rage futilely beating. [3, p. 168]) additive: .g. One foot also he held up, after the manner of a dog. [3, p. 49], too, soared high, but not so high as the quarry, and her teeth clipped emptily together with a metallic snap. [3, p. 51]
) attitudinal adverbs which express the speaker's comment on the content of what he is saying. Such adverbs can be of two kinds:
adverbs expressing a comment on the truth-value of what is being said, indicating the extent to which the speaker believes what he is saying is true:
E.g. Perhaps they sensed his wild-wood breed, and instinctively felt for him the enmity that the domestic dog feels for the wolf. [3, p. 115] certainly it was he that caused the mother the most trouble in keeping her little from the mouth of the cave. [3, p. 66]) adverbs expressing some attitude towards what is being said: .g. He is wisely staying at home tonight. [3, p. 189]
) conjunctive adverbs: .g. On the other side ran a gaunt old wolf, grizzled and marked with the scars of many battles. [3, p. 42], with the exception of the ones that liped, the movements of the animals were eftortless and tireless. [3, p. 201], it was not fear, but terror, that convulsed him. [3, p. 74], he pointed towards the wall of darkness that pressed about them from every side. [3, p. 11] little while, however, one dog o...
