Nit - nitting: «immeasurably» is not
the best adverb here: given the budget figures of the given news companies, we could very well measure the government's share in them.
As for the fellow using «firstly, secondly... and PARTICULARLY thirdly»... please, First and Second are perfectly
good adverbs, do not attempt to destroy them.
Not exact matches
Even now, at age seven, he uses
adverbs properly and has a vocabulary that goes
well beyond that of kids his age.
«That means no
good,» Wurden says, omitting an
adverb.
Your 40s can be way
better, like unbelievably, extraordinarily, infinitely, SO MANY
ADVERBS better than any previous decade.
While the word pretty used as an adjective (physical compliment) might get you nowhere, as an
adverb it becomes a powerful tool that works very
well.
Using Verbs And
Adverbs Improve Your English Work Packs teach the child
good English.
In fact, a
good overall writing rule of thumb is «less is more» — not only in relation to
adverbs.
This resource is ideal for revising adjectives,
adverbs and verbs as
well as descriptive writing about settings.
A free trial of my
best - in - class version is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409 There are 15 questions, testing children's knowledge of: - The difference between
adverbs, subordinating conjunctions and prepositions.
If Joyce, or Nabokov, or J.K. Rowling had run all their work through a modern critique group, frequented online writing forums, attended writing workshops, and absorbed all the (generally)
well - intentioned nonsense talked about beats, the Hero's Journey, plot arcs,
adverb use, and character change, it's unlikely they would have ever achieved the fame and status they have today.
Officially — which means, in my humble opinion — «
best - selling» should be hyphenated because you are linking a modifying
adverb that doesn't end in «ly.»
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.
They will also find positive things in your writing, see the beyond the forest of
adverbs you are hiding behind, and compliment you on that one
good description you managed on page three.
It's not easy to trim the fat whether eliminating those yummy chocolate truffles from our diets or cutting out the weak modifiers, «wishy - washy» words, extra «
wells,» «ums,» «ers,» and «ohs» from our dialogues, and replacing adjectives and
adverbs with strong nouns and verbs.
You will find specific techniques for strengthening your writing in the process of eliminating
adverbs in The Frugal Editor: Put Your
Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.
So instead of saying, «Use
adverbs sparingly, keeping in mind your genre, your audience, and the expectations attached to each,» you say «don't use
adverbs» because it's easier to simply assume they're not going to do it
well...
best to simply cut it out.
That is a poetic language also, with
adverbs and adjective capable to enrich your story and turn it into the next
best seller.
Indeed, although unnecessary
adverbs might be a dubious luxury of non-lawyers, they can poison otherwise
good legal writing.
But when
adverbs appear repeatedly in legal writing, they greatly inhibit
good diction, terribly annoy the reader, and depressingly weaken the words the writer is contrivedly modifying.
But although
good legal writers have learned how to properly use sentence
adverbs, you'll rarely find them in their legal writing.
And attempting to correct someone who properly uses a flat
adverb will make you look less - than - knowledgeable, as
well as rude.
Think of the
adverb «quite», which is either ambiguous or weak: «quite
good» can mean «
better than expected», «something a bit less than
good», «actually
good», «very
good».
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..
If you decided to use such
adverbs, remember to stress them using figures or percent's to show how
well the job was done.
You can add descriptive
adverbs and adjectives (e.g., creatively, regularly, patiently, concisely, etc.) to sell the reader on how
well you did the task and bring the statement to life.