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Watch out! Thundergoats are dropping in and making sentences with their magic hammers. Your task? Make the sentences more interesting using adverbs and adverbial phrases.
“The adverb is not your friend,” King writes. “Adverbs, you will remember from your own version of Business English, are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...
We don't always need to use -ly adverbs, writes grammar expert June Casagrande, especially when they add nothing to our meaning.
Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It's terribly, awfully, ...
Those adverbs metastasized to the point of self-satire. This led, early in the 1960s, to the creation of a witty type of pun known as the Tom Swiftie. There are many clever ones.
Data Science Reveals Why the Best Business Writers Avoid Certain Words Stephen King hates adverbs. And why, if the goal of writing is to get result, you should too.