Directions: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.

This plan is going to benefit certainly all of us.

The correct answer is certainly going to benefit​​.

Key Points

• An adverb is 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, etc.
• Adverbs usually come after the main verb 'be', except in emphatic clauses where it comes before the verb.
• Example:
  • She’s always late for everything.
  • I never was a fan of hers. (emphatic)
• Since the given sentence follows the usual structure, the adverb will be placed after the verb 'is'.
• The given structure is followed only in the 1st option i.e. certainly going to benefit​​.
   

Correct Sentence: This plan is certainly going to benefit all of us.

 ​​​​Additional Information  

• ​Adverbs of manner/place/time are used to express how/where/when something is done respectively.
• Example:
  • I drove to work hastily. (manner)
  • I regularly go there. (place)
  • We waited for hours, but she arrived eventually. (time)
• ​If we use these adverbs in the same sentence, the adverbs will always be in this order:
  • Manner- Place -Time (MPT).
• Example:
  • ​She danced wildly here yesterday.