What word does the adverb modify?
Donna is an extremely ambitious person.
In the lesson before this question it only refers to adverbs modifying verbs but I think in this case it modifies the adjective "ambitious". Am I correct?
Yes, you are. It's not unusual for adverbs to modify adjectives.
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