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Section 11.5.5

Quantity Adverbs

Quantity adverbs modify the quantity or intensity of an adjective, a verb, or another adverb. Quantity adverbs typically are placed immediately before the words they modify. Some common quantity adverbs are almost, completely, especially, extremely, hardly, just, nearly, only, quite, really, relatively, and very.


Astronomers have just recently begun to look at whether the arrangement of clusters and superclusters of galaxies might not itself have some shape or structure.

--Andrew Fraknoi, "The Universe: An Introduction"


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