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How can you figure out the part of speech and

the meaning of the word grievously by breaking
it down to its word parts?

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Answer:

You look back two sentence and that should help and read til you get to the word

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer: Explanation:

The word grievously is an adverb , which means very seriously, or in a way that causes great pains . When we break it down to its two parts, we obtain the word grievious (adjective ), which came from the noun grief , and the element that forms adverbs from adjectives: ly (suffix ), and its meaning is "in the manner denoted by the adjective. The corresponding verb is grieve.

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