An adverb is a word or a group of words that modifies an adjective, a verb or even an adverb. It generally answers the questions when? how? where? how much? and at what extent? Typically, it is easy to spot an adverb in the sentence because it ends in a suffix -ly. In the given sentence above, the adverb is the word "briefly" which modifies the verb "paused".
Audience is the people who are being entertained, or are watching. I don't really understand your question, is there any answer choices? that would be very helpful.
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Please give more detail
Explanation:
Please make the question more clear & easier for us to answer.
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I believe the options are:
(A) All these decisions by public officials and businesses are aimed at one goal: slowing down the spread of the virus to avoid overburdening a health care system that doesn't have the infrastructure to handle a sudden surge of tens of thousands of cases at once.
(B) Epidemiologists study diseases and how they spread. They can somewhat predict how many cases of a disease are going to occur based on how the disease is behaving.
(C) The only reason total U.S. cases aren't already skyrocketing is that coronavirus testing has been such a mess that too few people — just 77 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the whole week of March 8 — are being tested. You can't count cases you haven't identified yet.
(D) But every indication is that the United States is on track to see the same exponential increase other countries are seeing, as scientist Mark Handley has been tracking on Twitter.
Explanation:
Flattening the curve basically means to lessen the pressure on the healthcare system by employing precautionary measures against the coronavirus. These, as you might already be aware, include hand washing, use of face masks, sanitizers, gloves and staying at home to prevent catching the infection.
Without protective measures, the number of cases will increase exponentially, ultimately overburdening the healthcare system. There won't be enough doctors, nurses or medical equipment to cater to the patients.