In stories the witch is usually a homely woman

In the sentence we have nouns, a copular verb (is), a noun phrase (a homely woman). From this constituents adverbs usually modify verbs, adjectives, noun phrases and a clause or a sentence. What is meant by “they don’t modify nouns”? In modern grammar a copula verb can’t be modified by adverb because it has no independent meaning and function to reconnect the subject with the subject complment expressing grammatical categories (individual, number, mood, aspect, tense and voice). A noun phrase is usually modified by adjectives of degree (quite, rather, almost, such) and really. The girl is quite a homely and caring woman. Usually is an adverb of indefinite frequency which can occupy three positions in a sentence : at the beginning, after “to be” and at the end, etc. If we remove that from the sentence, the meaning won’t change. As a sentence preceeding the whole sentence that it should be considered as a sentence adverb. What should I do?

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If No any is ungrammatical, you can use no or not any. There is no difference in meaning between There ist/are no + noun and There isn’t/aren’t any + noun :

there was no reason to be afraid of her. The two elements “no” + “no” often make the negative

stronger, “no”gives more emphasis. In a voice, no is often

stressed.