I decided to modify the look of my room, with some new paint and rugs.
The city may modify certain parts of their contracts with private companies.
The new law required police to modify the way they interrogated suspects.
Adjectives are used to modify nouns, and adverbs are used to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
Dangling Modifiers
In the sentence "It was quite late for a telephone call," the word "quite" is an adverb used to modify the adjective "late."
A phrase or clause placed awkwardly in a sentence so that it appears to modify or refer to an unintended word.
In the following sentence, which word is an adverb used to modify a verb? The young girl quickly learned the rules of the board game.
Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. In the sentence "I am happy to meet you", happy is a predicate adjective. The word it's describing is the subject "I", a pronoun.
To modify the word glory!
Car enthusiasts modify their vehicles with special, high-performance parts. The adjective 'special' in the above sentence is used to modify the noun 'parts'.
Adverbs modify verbs the verb in this sentence is wait
Dangling Modifiers
In the sentence "It was quite late for a telephone call," the word "quite" is an adverb used to modify the adjective "late."
A dangling modifier is a modifying word or phrase which does not clearly modify a word or phrase in a sentence.
The word that describes the verb in a sentence is called an adverb. Adverbs modify or provide more information about the action of the verb.
The word "boundless" is an adjective, generally used in a sentence to describe or modify a quality (noun), such as "boundless energy."
A dangling modifier is a phrase or a word that modifies a word in a sentence that is not clearly stated. It is a modifier with nothing to modify.
Adverbs can appear in various positions depending on what they modify. Sometimes they need to be adjacent to the word they modify (e.g. moved quickly/quickly moved).
The word "quite" is an adverb used to modify the adjective "late" in the sentence. It is describing the degree to which it was late for a telephone call.
The word "sadly" is an adverb used to modify the verb "spoke." It describes how the girl spoke about her grandfather.