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Section 11.5.2

Sentence Adverbs

Sentence adverbs express the certainty or uncertainty of the state or action described in the sentence. Sentence adverbs typically are placed between the subject and the first verb of the sentence, or after the first auxiliary verb, if one is present. Some common sentence adverbs are certainly, possibly, and probably.


Computers probably would have been developed even without government funding.

Computers would probably have been developed even without government funding.


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