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 *** "extremely" describes the extent to which the coach was "angry" (an adjective)
 *** therefore, the adverb "extremely" acts upon the adjective "angry" as opposed to the verb "was"
-=== adverb uses ===
+=== adverbs to describe how ===
-* adverbs generally answer the "how" and "when" of an action (or verb):
+* adverbs can answer the "how" of an action (or verb):
 ** how: "Soraya studied hard" or "Soraya studied quietly"
 *** note that "hard" is also an adjective that describes high density of an object: "the stone is hard"
-** when: "Jocelyn arrived late"
+*** but here it is used to modify the verb in that she studied "strenuously"
 * adverbs never describe a noun
-** ex. "she called the broken phone stupidly" v. "she called the broken phone stupid"
+** ex. "she called the broken phone stupid" = the phone is stupid,
+*** v. "she stupidly called the broken phone" = she mistakenly called a broken phone
 * Sources:
 ** [https://literarydevices.net/adverb/ Adverb (literarydevices.net)]
 ** [https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/adjective_or_adverb/index.html Adjective or Adverb (OWL)]
 === adverbs of time ===
 * are used to express the timing of an action