10.61 indicating quality of the agent

Another group of sentence adjuncts is used to indicate the quality you think someone showed by doing an action. They are formed from adjectives which can be used to describe people, and are often placed after the subject of the sentence and in front of the verb.

• The League of Friends generously provided about five thousand pounds.
• Paul Gayner is rightly famed for his menu for vegetarians.
• She very kindly arranged a beautiful lunch.
• Foolishly, we had said we would do the decorating.

The following adverbs are used in this way:

bravely, carelessly, cleverly, correctly, foolishly, generously, kindly, rightly, wisely, wrongly