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.

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 ...

Good questions have been piling up in my inbox lately. Ed in Albany, N.Y., had a question about a recent column in which I mentioned people “who just won’t stop using the word ‘over’ wrong ...

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 ...

Ernest Hemingway was not a big fan of adverbs, although he did use some odd ones himself on occasion, such as ‘smally’ Frank McNally. Fri Apr 25 2025 - 06:00.

OK, that’s better. Derrida has 19 percent more adjectives and adverbs than Bulwer-Lytton. But he’s only got 8 percent more than Zinsser, and Zinsser has more than Bulwer-Lytton, so this still ...