“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs.” —Stephen King Adverbs tell us when, where, why, how, how much and how often. Without adverbs, we wouldn’t have massively multi-player ...

Basically, an adverb modifies a verb or adjective to tell you how someone did something. The main problem is, unfortunately, people tend to overuse adverbs.

The main use of adverbs is, as we have seen, to say how something is done. But adverbs also tell us when, where, why and under what conditions an action happens. Timmy arrives in Hong Kong tomorrow.

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? by Brian Cleary, illus. by Brian Gable, is the newest entry in the Words Are Categorical series. A playful rhyming text (""Adverbs tell us when and ...

As a writer, it’s not your place to tell a reader how to feel about something. Give them the facts and let them decide for themselves. He died in a plane crash.

I heard from a number of readers recently about traffic signs they saw reminding drivers that school has started, so they should “Drive Safe.” The sentiment is laudable, but the grammar is wrong.

They have to work together, to connect, to tell you about the missile. These are called compound modifiers: words that team up to work like a modifier, usually an adjective, to describe another word.

Everybody loves adverbs. Unsurprisingly, scientists love them, too. They use them a lot. So much that Neil Saunders, a statistical bioinformatician, decided to dig into which adverbs get the most ...

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: ...