The traveller described a lofty castle decaying _gradually. Very_ few
literary men _ever_ became distinguished poets. The great Milton excels
_not_ Homer. The Roman women, _once voluntarily_ contributed their
_most_ precious jewels to save the city.
Many small streams uniting, form _very_ large rivers. The river Funza
falling _perpendicularly_ forms a vast cataract. Attentive servants
_always_ drive horses _very carefully_; negligent servants _often_ drive
horses _very carelessly_. Assiduous scholars improve _very fast_; idle
scholars learn _none at all_. Friendship _often_ ends in love; but love
in friendship, _never_.
NOTE. Several adverbs frequently qualify one verb. Have you walked? _Not
yet quite far enough, perhaps. Not, yet, far_, and _enough_, qualify
"have walked" understood; _perhaps_ qualifies _not_; and _quite_
qualifies _far_. The adverbs _always_ and _carefully_ both qualify the
verb "drive:" the former expresses _time_, and the latter, _manner.
Once_ and _voluntarily_ qualify the verb "contributed;" the former
expresses _number_, and the latter, _manner_. The word _their_ you need
not parse. The active verb _to save_ has no nominative. The nouns _love_
and _friendship_, following _in_, are in the objective case, and
governed by that preposition.