She works quickly. How does Madonna sing? She sings badly. (Oh dear!) There you are. A list of popular adverbs is very easy to build up. The main use of adverbs is, as we have seen, to say how ...

not adverbs, as their complements. They’re called copular or linking verbs, and they either refer back to the subject or deal with the senses. The most common copular verb is “be,” along ...

Then he looked for adverbs. By far the most common adverb was “finally,” which showed up nearly 1500 times. Behind it fall “additionally” and then “interestingly.” Because science is ...

Thus, the book is littered with fascinating bits of trivia, like how all popular books today are filled ... Consider, for instance, the use of adverbs ending with “–ly” (e.g., ponderously ...

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 ...

Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It’s terribly, awfully, horrendously important. But why? Really, ...

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 ...