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Question

These stories seem strangely familiar to me. What does the adverb strangely modify? A verb A adjective or A adverb?

Answer 1

The adverb strangely modifies the adjective familiar.

Why?

Adverbs answer the questions:
How? (How were they familiar?)
Where? (Where were they familiar?)
When? (When were they familiar?)
To what extent? (To what extent were they familiar?)

Why? (Why were they familiar?)

In this question, strangely answers how they were familiar. Similar sentences would be "The stories seem comfortably familiar to me" or "The stories seem boringly familiar to me."

Answer 2

At least structurally, in the sentence These stories seem strangely familiar to me, the adverb strangely modifies the adjective familiar.

 

Semantically, however, one could argue that the concept of "strangeness" might apply not just to the adjective familiar but really to the central proposition expressed by the sentence, i.e., "It is strange that these stories seem familiar."