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Consider the following sentence: "The red ball quickly fell onto the floor, which was already wet, and rolled away." When asked to underline the adverbs, a Class V student underlined only 'quickly' and 'away', leaving out 'already'. Which of the following misconceptions does the student most likely have?
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- 1Adverbs can only indicate the manner of an action.
- 2Adverbs need to appear immediately after the action verb.
- 3Adverbs must always end with the suffix '-ly'.
- 4Adverbs modify only verbs and cannot modify adjectives.✓
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Adverbs modify only verbs and cannot modify adjectives.
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