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Verb modifiers or clarifiers are adverbs. For instance, in the sentence "Mary quickly scribbled her name on the check", quickly would be the adverb.

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Adverbs are words that modify verbs by indicating time, manner, place, or degree. They provide additional information about how, when, where, or to what extent an action is done.

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