Remarkable studies also go in Nature. And the papers that had the most adverbs? Saunders has a list: Certainly, non-academic writers are certainly guilty of adverb love, too. But writers have ...

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 are great, right? They let you describe how an action went down — whether it was walking quickly or sleeping soundly or yelling loudly. But if adverbs are so great, why do editors like ...

Adrienne Bailon is definitely living an absolutely wonderful life, and she uses an endless list of adverbs to express it. The bubbly member of The Cheetah Girls known as "Chanel" realized her good ...

I don’t use adverbs. I try to make the verb do the work.” As someone who spends her days fixing bad writing, I can tell you there’s gold in those words, especially the part about adverbs.

Daddy, you always wake up at that hour. Not in my time zone, but in the deceased’s time zone, at that hour. N Daddy, a new daddy showed up like the way you whisper inside my crying. N His close ...

That Casimir Markievicz exhibition (Diary, April 23rd) reminded me in passing how dependent the upper classes of these islands used to be on what grammarians call “degree adverbs”. Witness a ...

Consider, for instance, the use of adverbs ending with “–ly” (e.g., ponderously, snarkily). From high-school grammar teachers to writing gurus, the advice is to eschew the use of these words.

Exclamation points popped up like weeds. If those active verbs failed, the authors would turn to that oft-maligned part of speech: the adverb! On almost every page, characters said things ...