Lately … I’ve begun rethinking my adverbial antipathy.For years, I’ve known without a doubt what to do if I found an adverb in my copy: exterminate the sucker ...
If you're at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs - words that end in -ly - isn't a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening ...
An adverb is a word that tells you more about a verb. Prince Lucas ran to the gate quickly. The verb is ‘ran’. The adverb is ‘quickly’. It tells you how Prince Lucas ran. You can also put the adverb ...
Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...
An adverb is a word that tells you more about a verb. Prince Lucas ran to the gate quickly. The verb is ‘ran’. The adverb is ‘quickly’. It tells you how Prince Lucas ran. You can also put the adverb ...