Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. A positive adjective describes one thing: This is a good book. A comparative adjective compares two things: This book is better than that book.

Adverbs can modify whole sentences. There’s a myth that it’s wrong to say, “Hopefully, I’ll win the lottery” because it suggests that you will in fact win the lottery and you’ll do so ...

10 of the 15 books on the list are completely fake. By Matt Novak Published May 20, 2025 Latest news ... Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It's terribly, awfully, ...

The refrain goes like this: Adverbs bad. Don’t use adverbs. They mess up your prose and smush up your point. Kill all adverbs. Adverbs bad. Really bad. (No, wait. Nix that “really.”) Adverbs ...

An adverb tells you how something happens, like quickly and slowly. Find out more including adverbs examples in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

Stephen King's On Writing cautions that "the road to hell is paved with adverbs." The fourth of Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing is an admonition against modifying the verb to say.

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 ...