Using Conjunctive Adverbs in Sentences
Directions:
Underline the conjunctive adverbs that fit best in the sentences below.
Example:
Peat cutters who found the well-preserved body of the Lindow man thought he
was a recent murder victim. (However, Likewise), he had died more than
two thousand years before.
- A bestiary is a collection of fanciful moral tales about the imaginary
animals such as unicorns; bestiaries (also, hence) credit real animals with
improbable behavior, such as an adder’s putting a stone in one ear and its
tail in the other to deafen itself.
- Fish from Lake Malawi are famous for their variety; (likewise,
subsequently), they are known for their interesting behavior.
- Birds sometimes drop banyan seeds into the crowns of palm trees. The seeds
can (instead, subsequently) germinate and send down roots that smother and
kill the trees.
- Malcolm spends every weekend working on his model train layouts.
(Furthermore, Conversely), he bought a new house because it has a basement
large enough for the layouts.
- Bluebeard forbids his wife to enter one room of his castle; (nevertheless,
thus), she enters the room, where she finds the dead bodies of Bluebeard’s
former wives.
- Satellites were originally intended to monitor weather; (consequently,
however), today they are used for such tasks as tracking whales and checking
on irrigation systems.
- Enrico tried repeatedly to start his car; (finally, meanwhile), he gave up
and took the bus home.
- Most fish have organs in their skins that sense the movement of other
fish; (hence, otherwise), they can coordinate their movements with those of
other fish in their schools.
- Sympathy with their subjects is essential for biographers; such sympathy,
(however, otherwise), all too often leads to uncritical admiration.
- One Nashville museum is Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame;
(similarly, thus), Minnie Pearl’s Museum features displays such as dolls
in glass cases representing key moments in Minnie Pearl’s career.
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