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Question

They sang beautifully during the entire winter concert. What does the adverb beautifully modify?

Answer 1

The adverb beautifully modifies the verb sang.

Why?

Adverbs answer the questions:

1. How? (How did they sing?)
2. Where? (Where did they sing?)
3. When? (When did they sing?)
4. To what extent? (To what extent did they sing?)
5. Why? (Why did they sing?)

In this question, beautifully answers how they sang. Similar sentences would be "They sang terribly during the entire winter concert" or "They sang happily during the entire winter concert."

Answer 2

Adverbs answer to questions How?, When?, how often? where? and how much?

 

They also modify verbs and adjectives. In you case the adverbs modifies the verb sang and answers to the question how?