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A manner adverb stays with the action and describes how it happens.",[],{"items":19,"categories":34},[20,23,25,27,30,32],{"text":21,"category":22},"Apparently, the train was cancelled.","Comments on the whole sentence",{"text":24,"category":22},"Clearly, the plan will fail.",{"text":26,"category":22},"The report was apparently incomplete.",{"text":28,"category":29},"The guide explained the route clearly.","Describes how an action happens",{"text":31,"category":29},"She closed the gate quietly.",{"text":33,"category":29},"He answered the question directly.",[22,29],{"id":36,"sentenceTemplate":37,"displayOrder":38,"explanation":39,"blanks":40,"payload":41},"01a01413-8f24-7c67-9cc5-bfec3be017df","Sort each sentence by what its key adverb or adverb phrase means.",1,"Hard expresses effort, late means after the expected time, and near expresses distance. Hardly means almost not, lately means recently, and nearly means almost. 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An action verb takes an adverb when the word describes how the action happens.",[],{"items":69,"categories":84},[70,73,75,77,80,82],{"text":71,"category":72},"The plan sounds realistic.","Adjective after a linking verb",{"text":74,"category":72},"Mina looked nervous.",{"text":76,"category":72},"The fabric feels smooth.",{"text":78,"category":79},"She looked angrily at him.","Adverb describing an action",{"text":81,"category":79},"He tasted the sauce cautiously.",{"text":83,"category":79},"They spoke calmly to the panel.",[72,79],{"id":86,"sentenceTemplate":87,"displayOrder":88,"explanation":89,"blanks":90,"payload":91},"01a01413-8f24-7d07-9cc5-bfec3d20c562","All of these words end in -ly. Sort each one by what it actually is.",3,"An -ly ending usually marks an adverb, but not always: a few adjectives simply end that way. 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