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A nervous employee is recounting a disastrous meeting to a friend. Read the employee's frantic text messages to determine how the adverbs are being used.
Select ALL the sentences where the adverb functions as a sentence adverb (expressing the speaker's attitude or evaluation of the whole situation), rather than an adverb of manner (describing how an action was done). Select all that apply.
The correct answers are: Frankly, I have no idea why I wore a clown tie to the board meeting. Regrettably, the CEO did not appreciate my joke about the quarterly losses. Clearly, I am not getting that promotion this year.
A sentence adverb stands outside the main clause and modifies the entire statement, revealing the speaker's perspective, attitude, or certainty (e.g., frankly, regrettably, clearly). They are frequently placed at the beginning of a sentence and separated by a comma.
In contrast, profusely and heavily are adverbs of manner. They directly modify the verbs (apologized and sighed) to describe exactly how those specific actions were performed.