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Premodification of adjectives

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Adjectives are frequently premodified by adverbs in academic style:

[SMS = ‘safe minimum standard’ for the conservation of endangered species]

Arguments for the SMS are typically invoked in settings involving considerable

uncertainty and 

potentially irreversible losses.

[describing an experiment to test people’s anxiety levels, involving them

making a speech while looking at a computer monitor screen where an

‘audience’ is displayed; the subjects have to imagine the audience is real]

High and low 

socially anxious individuals were asked to make a speech to 

a monitor displaying six people whom they believed to be watching them 

live.