It’s kind of sad how boring all of this spinning and grabbing and gunplay turns out to be. So let’s look, cursorily, at a few ways in which adverbs can weaken your prose, before moving on to ...

When you want to know whether a word is an adverb, check a dictionary, skimming all its entries for each part of speech — noun, adjective, adverb — that applies. Advertisement.

All three of these words are adverbs. “Well,” on the other hand, stays in because in this context it’s not an adverb. It’s an adjective.

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 ...

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 ...