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The semantics of modal auxiliaries, adverbs, temporal modifiers and tense are the subject of much concern but one thing is clear: they have interactive effects.
The adverb is modifying the verb.
Adverbs can modify other adverbs.
Adverbs also modify adjectives.
As an adverb, it can modify a verb like "wash". But as an adjective, it can modify a noun like "cars". The real trick to using "only" well — in fact, the secret to using any modifier well — is to pay attention to your whole sentence.
A hyphen is never needed when a compound modifier includes an adverb ending in -ly.
No need for a hyphen in a compound modifier with an adverb ending in "ly".
But compound modifiers containing ly adverbs are not: a recently unearthed specimen, a happily married couple, hastily drawn plans.
But what if the first half of your compound modifier is not an adverb?
What follows is that most Chinese characters can serve equally as both nouns and verbs, and modifiers too (adjectives and adverbs); apart from context no graph has a unique grammatical function.
The basic word order is subject object verb (SOV); modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs generally precede what they modify, while specifiers such as quantifying terms and auxiliary verbs follow the specified (thus 'book many' = 'many books').
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