Adverb phobia is especially troublesome if you ... (It’s like explaining a joke — if you need to tell us something happened grimly or someone spoke grimly, then it’s not really that ...

Your very name has become an adverb for lying ... You're the butt of jokes, comedians, mainstream talk show hosts they make jokes about you. They do sketches about you. I cannot imagine anything ...

funny words, the perfect words. “To write something with Jim means moving slowly, selecting the correct word, noting the comma here, the unnecessary adverb there,” says John Mulaney ...

I tell you this not to offer you a glimpse into typical rural Florida family life, but to highlight some widespread advice about adverbs. The refrain goes like this: Adverbs bad. Don’t use adverbs.

Adverbs are great, right? They let you describe how an action went down — whether it was walking quickly or sleeping soundly or yelling loudly. But if adverbs are so great, why do editors like ...

Those adverbs metastasized to the point of self-satire ... I use the Tom Swiftie as a creative example in some writing lessons. As with many jokes, the Swiftie makes you laugh at the end ...

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 ...

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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Ah, the adverb train station. If you want to find out about adverbs, there is no better place. An adverb tells you ...