Lawyers prefer adverbial phrases (like at slow speed) instead of simple
adverbs like slowly.
and The Redbook, A Manual on Legal Style, sentence
adverbs like clearly and obviously are «weasel words» that degrade persuasive legal writing:
Vague
adverbs like these tend to confuse learners.
Not exact matches
Most behavioral interview questions start with phrases
like «tell me about a time» or an
adverb such as what, where, why, or when.
Google throws out words
like adverbs with TF - IDF and dynamically evaluates the natural density for topic.
When humans conceive of grammar we might think of categories
like nouns, verbs, adjectives and
adverbs that people communicate by vocalizing.
Your 40s can be way better,
like unbelievably, extraordinarily, infinitely, SO MANY
ADVERBS better than any previous decade.
They all have some amazing adjective and
adverb laden name
like «Super Mega Ultra Advanced Creatine Delivery Technology Breakthrough».
Check more lessons for this Unit 1: Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question Check here Unit 1 lesson 3 food,
like and opinion Check here Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and
adverbs of frequency Unit1 / Lesson4
It is flexible to help you teach ESL / EAL students beginners / elementary about vocabulary: the alphabet, the numbers, countries, nationalities, food,
likes - dislikes, opinions and about grammar: verb BE, simple present, subject pronouns, possessive adjectives,
adverbs of frequency The bundle contains 5 powerpoint presentations with about 30 slides each with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step - by - step explanation about the progression of the lesson.
Unfortunately, writers get so many stupid so - called rules about
adverb use, «show, don't tell», proactive protagonists, character change, never using prologues and flashbacks, and so on rammed down their throats until,
like young recruits at army boot camp, they break and conform.
As I developed as a writer, I took classes, read books and listened carefully to the words of my editor and mentor Lisa Rector - Maass and I started to learn the rules of writing, rules
like: do not switch character point of view within a scene; do not write backstory in the first fifty pages; ease up on the use of
adverbs.
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Even little things
like tolerance for — ly
adverbs has evolved over time.
but it's pretty good at catching mechanical things,
like repeating phrases, excessive
adverbs, filler words,... Take its recommendations with a grain of salt, but it could be very helpful in cleaning up copy before a human editor gets to see it, so (s) he can focus on the meat and potatoes rather than on petty annoyances.
I will look for issues
like overused words, too many
adverbs, purple prose, sentence fragments, confusing sentences, over or under describing, cliche phrases, awkward or unnatural dialogue, and anything else that prevents your prose from shining.
She breaks a lot of writing «rules» that sometimes takes me out of the stories (
like changing world facts to cover up plot holes, or overusing the same three
adverbs with every dialogue tag), but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy her stories!
A writer may comment on technicalities learned in workshops
like too many
adverbs, punctuations, head - hopping and so on whereas a reader sees the story as a whole.
Phyllis J. Featherstone
likes to focus her work and states «Color is my noun, adjective,
adverb, verb, and subject at the moment; and the flavor is all about blue.»
But
adverbs can be scary little pests, who, as Stephen King said, can spread
like dandelions.
Any
adverb that ends with - ly to «emphasize» how good you are is a trick hiring authorities don't
like.
And when you are adding such
adverbs in your summary or in other resume sections
like: «efficiently», «good», «increased», «managed» and so on..
I especially
like your qualifying
adverb «reasonably» with clean;)