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Modify Modification Change Slightly Order Improve Modified Club

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If you m_____ something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.If you modify something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.
The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.
The plane was a modified version of the C-130.
Relatively minor modifications were required.
...behaviour modification techniques.
word modification
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verb
If you modify something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.
The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.
The plane was a modified version of the C-130.
Relatively minor modifications were required.
...behaviour modification techniques.
A word or group of words that modifies another word describes or classifies something, or restricts the meaning of the word.
It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say 'a good cry', not 'a cry good'.
inflections modifiesmodifyingmodifiedmodificationmodifications
cefr-level C1

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