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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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The hills were breathtakingly beautiful.
what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb?
what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb?
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Anonymous The hills were breathtakingly beautiful. what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb ?
- Anonymous The hills were breathtakingly beautiful.
- what is "breathtakingly"?
- An adjective, noun, adverb ?
- By definition, words which modify adjectives (beautiful) are adverbs.
- Of course there are exceptions.
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AnonymousThe hills were breathtakingly beautiful.
what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb? By definition, words which modify adjectives (beautiful) are adverbs. Of course there are exceptions. (Sometimes a word or expression only appears to modify the adjective.)
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