<span>a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree
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It helps convey the tone by stating that the Hutu's saw the Tutsis as below them, and therefore taking their lives would be equivalent to taking the life of an animal, as many hunters do for sport. Basically, they are comparing the Tutsi people to animals and saying that their lives are less valuable.
In the Odyssey, the gods are often much less grand. They function more as spiritual guides and supporters for their human subjects, sometimes assuming mortal disguises in order to do so.
My brother and sister were playing a tennis game at 11 A.M.
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