Questions 12–20: make note of every adverb that you find in the following sentences. next to each adverb, write the word that the adverb modifies and the part of speech being modified. remember that an adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. 12. little green sprouts gently made their way through the soil. 13. the leaves were very small, but we were not dismayed at their size. 14. they had just reached a healthy size when we knew we had to thin the rows. 15. we could hardly wait to enjoy the fruits of our labors. 16. lettuce flourished and the radish leaves could be clearly seen in neat, straight rows. 17. suddenly we found that we were serving our produce proudly. 18. gradually the corn appeared and moved gently in the wind. 19. the sun and rain cooperatively alternated for a remarkably balanced growing season. 20. we will often remember this project.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.