We don't always need to use -ly adverbs, writes grammar expert June Casagrande, especially when they add nothing to our meaning.

Recently, I mentioned in a column that adverbs aren't just those "ly" words that modify verbs.

Lawyers and judges modify the view that the adverb, a part of speech maligned by many writers, is not your friend. Just don’t tell Stephen King.

An adverb tells you how something happens, like quickly and slowly. Find out more including adverbs examples in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

I am gladly, fully, openly in support of adverbs. Despite our democratic ideals, schoolchildren throughout America learn that not all words are created equal: Nouns and verbs make sense of the ...