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Adverbs of extent, e.g., "completely", modify verbs. Traditionally, though incorrectly, many other types of adverbs are taken to modify verbs, but most of these actually modify verb phrases or sentences. The best authority on this is James McCawley, "The Syntactic Phenomena of English", who shows, for instance, that a manner adverb such as "hesitantly" does not modify the verb of its sentence, but rather its verb phrase (unless of course the verb phrase happens to consist of a lone verb).

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