Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. A positive adjective describes one thing: This is a good book. A comparative adjective compares two things: This book is better than that book.

Adverbs can modify whole sentences. There’s a myth that it’s wrong to say, “Hopefully, I’ll win the lottery” because it suggests that you will in fact win the lottery and you’ll do so ...

10 of the 15 books on the list are completely fake. By Matt Novak Published May 20, 2025 Latest news ... Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It's terribly, awfully, ...

The refrain goes like this: Adverbs bad. Don’t use adverbs. They mess up your prose and smush up your point. Kill all adverbs. Adverbs bad. Really bad. (No, wait. Nix that “really.”) Adverbs ...

This is not an idiosyncrasy of great.The unsuffixed adverbs — great, quick, bright, etc. — quite generally have a different syntax from the standard suffixed ones. Compare quickly and quick ...

85 adjectives = 10.6 percent 42 adverbs = 5.2 percent 127 adjectives and adverbs = 15.8 percent. We have a winner! Okulicz-Kozaryn’s text, ...

Stephen King's On Writing cautions that "the road to hell is paved with adverbs." The fourth of Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing is an admonition against modifying the verb to say.