It’s kind of sad how boring all of this spinning and grabbing and gunplay turns out to be. So let’s look, cursorily, at a few ways in which adverbs can weaken your prose, before moving on to ...

There are many different adverbs. There is no particular form that identifies a word as an adverb. Some adjectives can be turned in to adverbs by adding –ly. When adverbs are used to modify a ...

The adverb beautifully doesn't just tell us she sings, it tells us how she sings, creating a completely different mental image for the reader. Adverbs in various roles: ...

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.