Finding Adjectives and Adverbs

Let's go on to the next sentence of the passage:

They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wildfire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.

I'm not sure quite how to have you mark this. Why don't you put nouns in bold, verbs in italic. Then put adjectives in blue and adverbs in green. Any prepositional phrases that you see, put in parentheses.

Remember that a prepositional phrase can have an adjective within it -- describing the noun. I see at least one and there may be more.

I don't expect you to get these all perfect. It's important to think about how things work together in sentences -- it's good for understanding, for logical thinking and also for learning language patterns to be a better writer. But it is definitely not something that's always totally clearcut.

Notice Homer's rolling, cumulative sentences, by the way! Other authors have quite different patterns.

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