An adverb that modifies a verb is generally more flexible: it may appear before or after the verb it modifies ( softly sang or sang softly ), or it may appear at the beginning of the sentence ( Softly she sang to the baby). The position of the adverb may have an effect on the meaning of the sentence.
Under Republican President George W. Bush, the U.S. Justice Department searched for voter fraud. But in the first three years of the program, just 26 people were convicted or pled guilty to illegal registration or voting. Out of 197,056,035 votes cast in the two federal elections held during that period, the rate of voter fraud was a miniscule 0.00000132 percent! No state considering or passing restrictive voter identification laws has documented an actual problem with voter fraud.
406 people were arrested for mortgage fraud in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud nationwide that stem from the country's housing crisis. Those arrested in the sting, dubbed âOperation Malicious Mortgage,â included buyers, sellers and others across the wide-ranging mortgage industry. Noting that the subprime lending crisis is a contributing factor to mortgage fraud, both