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I don't understand the function of もの in the following sentence:

> 薬が **もの** すごく苦かったから、急いで飲み込んだ。

The sentence makes perfect sense if I omit もの altogether, and I am not sure
what is its function in the sentence. Could it be a typo?

> 薬が ~~もの~~ すごく苦かったから、急いで飲み込んだ。

> The medicine was so bitter that I swallowed it swiftly.
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meaning prefixes
What is the meaning of もの in ものすごく?
After some research in the Internet, I found out that もの is not a standalone
word in the sentence above, but instead it is part of the word ものすごく, which
has the same meaning than すごく but with stronger intensity:

> このカボチャすごく大きい! This pumpkin is very big!

> あのカボチャものすごく巨大だ！That pumpkin is huge!

([source](https://hinative.com/ja/questions/965638))
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もの is not a standalone word, it combines with すごく as a whole.ものすごく is an
adverb form of ものすごい(物凄い), meaning that たいへんな。すごい(too much, great)
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