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 ...

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? by Brian Cleary, illus. by Brian Gable, is the newest entry in the Words Are Categorical series. A playful rhyming text (""Adverbs tell us when and how.

The innocuous little adverb was originally used to mean "in fact" - "That tree is actually a fir, not a pine." Or to express surprise or incredulity - "I actually won the lottery!" (Both examples from ...

Count the adverbs in the following sentence. Therefore, we should wait outside awhile because the very lovely and kindly family will be there soon to tell us fast whether everyone is well. Would it ...

I couldn’t agree more with the meaning of that slogan. But what about its grammar? Purists would argue that people don’t drive “drunk”; rather, they say, people “drive drunkenly” or they “drive in a ...

Is “actually” the new “like”? The innocuous little adverb was originally used to mean “in fact” — “That tree is actually a fir, not a pine.” Or to express surprise or incredulity — “I actually won the ...