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VERY can be an adjective or an adverb. Syntactically, it's an adjective in such constructions as 'The very thought of it', or 'This is the very thing I've been looking for',because it's modifying the nouns 'thought and 'thing' respectively. Semantically it's the equivalent to saying 'the mere or bare thought...' and 'the exact or same thing...'

Very is also commonly used as an adverb to intensify (i.e. modify) an adjective, e.g. 'this exam is very difficult' where it's describing the degree of difficulty. It can also be used to intensify another adverb as in 'Business is going very well' where it tells you to what degree the business is going well.

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