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Which word in the sentence is an adverb?

The Olympic wrestlers stood and stretched their arms briefly.
a. stood
b. briefly
c. their
d. Olympic

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"briefly" is the adverb: it gives the information about how some action was performed, and adverbs modify verbs to give some information about how the action is performed.

Also, -ly is a typical adverb ending.
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