"modify" meaning in English

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          "text": "Both penalties and rewards can be used to modify children's behaviour."
        },
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          "text": "It is also possible to modify the original by adding or removing parts."
        },
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          "text": "We found some new problems and modified the program accordingly."
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        "If you modify something, you change it, often only in small ways, and often because you want to use it in a different situation."
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          "text": "The adjective \"big\" modifies the noun \"bridge\" in the expression \"big bridge\"."
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        "If a word, phrase, or clause modifies another, it is an optional word, phrase, or clause that gives more information about the other."
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