Sentence Rounds at the Naming Hospital
Benny is the visiting specialist at the Naming Hospital, where one sentence has too many adverbs and another might not have enough. Fill in the missing adverbs, one earned word per seat.
Benny's still on the ward with the clipboard. Finish the rounds and he'll read every chart back, news and all.
Your story is ready. Here is what Benny read.
Tap or hover over any green word to see what kind of word you chose.
The Naming Hospital paged Benny . A sentence had been admitted overnight, its verb buried under adverbs.
Benny read the chart . The patient groaned: "I quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly ran."
"Four adverbs, one exhausted verb," Benny said. "Nobody's getting cut. Three of you are taking a seat."
He worked . Quickly, rapidly, and speedily filed to the bench. The verb sat up , stretched, and introduced itself as sprinted.
A nurse checked the monitor. "Recoveries happen that fast."
, the next patient needed the opposite call: its one adverb was carrying real news, and Benny taped that seat down. "This one plays," he said .
By noon the ward sounded healthier, and the benched adverbs waited for a sentence that needed them.
"Will the first patient recover?" the nurse asked.
"Totally, completely, absolutely!" Benny paused, then smiled . "One of those would have done the job. Even the coach drills the drill."
He signed the discharge , and the patient jogged , one strong verb, zero padding.
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