So really, the advice should be: “Use adverbs sparingly. And don’t use any unnecessary words at all.” Adverb phobia is especially troublesome if you’re writing science fiction, because you ...

When you want to know whether a word is an adverb, check a dictionary, skimming all its entries for each part of speech — noun, adjective, adverb — that applies. Advertisement.

All three of these words are adverbs. “Well,” on the other hand, stays in because in this context it’s not an adverb. It’s an adjective.

“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 ...

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 ...

Mastering adjectives and adverbs is crucial for vivid and engaging writing. Many students struggle with this concept, leading to awkward prose and undermining their credibility. Adjectives describe ...

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 ...

In all of Hemingway's novels, he wrote just over 865,000 words and used 50,200 adverbs, putting his adverb use at about 5.8?% of all words. On average, for every 17 words Hemingway wrote, one of ...