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Jackson6612 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Sadly, there are no online news articles available in my native tongue.

Sadly, there are no online news articles available in my native tongue.

I hope the aobve sentence is correct. Is "Sadly" modifying "are" as an adverb? Please let me know.
  

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Yes, the sentence is correct, and "sadly" is an adverb of "are".

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  • Yes, the sentence is correct, and "sadly" is an adverb of "are".
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Yes, the sentence is correct, and "sadly" is an adverb of "are".
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This is an example of what is called a disjunctive adverb. It doesn't really fit anywhere in the flow of a sentence and is more a kind of evaluation of the rest of the sentence. We can say that it modifies the entire sentence. Other examples are fortunately, unfortunately, luckily. One of the most common is hopefully.
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