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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Serenely

The sunset was serenely beautiful.I saw this sentence in learner's dictionary. I know what serene means but what does "serenely" mean here? How does it modify an adjective "beautiful"? Which adverb question does it answer: when, how…?
  

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Jigneshbharati I saw this sentence in a learner's dictionary. Which one? Can you give us the link?

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  • Jigneshbharati I saw this sentence in a learner's dictionary.
  • Which one?
  • Can you give us the link?
  • Jigneshbharati I know what " serene " means but what does "serenely" mean here?
  • It means in a serene way/manner .
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JigneshbharatiI saw this sentence in a learner's dictionary.

Which one? Can you give us the link?

JigneshbharatiI know what "serene" means but what does "serenely" mean here?

It means

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JigneshbharatiHow does it modify an adjective "beautiful"?

Adverbs of manner or degree very often modify adjectives. Note the -ly endings.

surprisingly happy; fashionably late; relatively simple; particularly vicious; extremely cautious; clearly visible; purely fictitious; comically absurd

CJ

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