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Anonymous  +  960027 Mon, 02 Nov 09 06:53 PM
The hills were breathtakingly beautiful.

 

what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb?
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Avangi  +  960113 Mon, 02 Nov 09 09:18 PM
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“The hills were breathtakingly beautiful.


what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb?”

  By definition, words which modify adjectives (beautiful) are adverbs.  Of course there are exceptions.  (Sometimes a word or expression only appears to modify the adjective.)
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