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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 ...

I am gladly, fully, openly in support of adverbs. Despite our democratic ideals, schoolchildren throughout America learn that not all words are created equal: Nouns and verbs make sense of the ...

Many celebrated stylists think so. Crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died last week, observed in his 10 rules of writing that using an adverb was almost always a "mortal sin." William Zinsser, author ...

OK, that’s better. Derrida has 19 percent more adjectives and adverbs than Bulwer-Lytton. But he’s only got 8 percent more than Zinsser, and Zinsser has more than Bulwer-Lytton, so this still ...

Compound modifiers can be adverbs, too. Often, these compound adverbs come after the verb: She works part-time. And because adverbs can modify adjectives, as in “fabulously wealthy,” compound ...