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According to the text the ‑ly morpheme may be conceived of as derivational or as inflectional. Irregularities involve adjectives ending in ‑ly, adverbs that are homomorphs of their adjectival pair, adjective–adverb pairs where the ‑ly form of the adverb exists but the two are not in complementary distribution (e.g. ‘deep’ used as an adverb). The difference between them can be explained along the lines that adjectives modify a noun or appear predicatively while adverbs modify a verb or sentence and cannot appear predicatively.