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, adverbs aren’t ...
Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...
So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary ...
Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Two schools of thought seem to exist on the placement of adverbs with compound verbs. One is easy: just stick ...
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are,” said W. Somerset Maugham. That hasn’t prevented many writers (and non-writers, or Maugham himself) from ...
Did you know that redheaded people only make up 1% to 2% of the world's population? There's a reason we are so scarce: the sun. I'm that person who can get a sunburn on a cloudy day. People have been ...