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In interrogative sentences, the adverb should come before the auxiliary verb or after it?
For example, my friend told me "I am confused with this issue". and I pondered whether I have to say:
What exactly does confuse you?
Or
What does exactly confuse you?
Exactly modifies what (you want to know just what it is that confuses your friend), so you can say
What exactly does confuse/confuses you? or
Exactly what confuses you?
