Underline the conjunctive adverbs that fit best in the sentences below.

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.

1. 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.
2. Fish from Lake Malawi are famous for their variety; (likewise, subsequently), they are known for their interesting behavior.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Satellites were originally intended to monitor weather; (consequently, however), today they are used for such tasks as tracking whales and checking on irrigation systems.
7. Enrico tried repeatedly to start his car; (finally, meanwhile), he gave up and took the bus home.
8. 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.
9. Sympathy with their subjects is essential for biographers; such sympathy, (however, otherwise), all too often leads to uncritical admiration.
10. 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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