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 ...

Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...

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 ...

How are “there,” “yesterday,” “quite,” “assiduously,” and “indeed” all members of the same family? I’m cursed with a mind that looks at a sentence and sees grammar before it sees meaning. It might be ...

Who will be the Lorax for the adverb, that most-maligned part of speech? Who will speak on the adverb’s behalf? For once again, it would seem, it is under attack. Christian Lorentzen’s New York ...