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[raewon]

I have two questions about the following sentence:

She did the task again.

In that sentence, what "type" of adverb is "again" and what exactly does it modify? Is "again" an "additive adverb"? The Teacher's Grammar
of English gives:

[grant gerstners]

Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.

In your example, "again" modifies "did".

"she" and "the task" are nouns.
That leaves the verb "did" as the only word left to modify.

I don't know about the term "additive adverb".

I'll just say that "again" could be replaced by the words "once", "twice", "over" and "over and over" (repeatedly).

[raewon]

Thanks for taking the time for that reply.

Of course, I also thought that "again" modified "did". However, I was
asked whether or not it could be considered as modifying "did the task."

According to the book I referred to in my initial post, adverbs can also
modify verbs and clauses (called adverbial adjuncts in the latter case). In this case, they are often in sentence-initial position, followed by a comma.

After having read that, I thought that perhaps "did the task" could be correct as well.

Again, thank you for your reply.

[YTMND]

Adverb of frequency?

Additional question about again is at http://www.englishforums.com/English/AgainVsOnceAgain/xpmlz/post.htm