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I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. While I didn't agree at the time, I use them now only vanishingly rarely.
by drb91 8y ago
I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. While I didn't agree at the time, I use them now only vanishingly rarely. ;)
- dragonwriter 8y ago> I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. I've certainly (in the same place) heard that heavy adverb use is a “writing smell” in much that way, but the point of that was very much not to substitute the use of adjectives serving as if they were adverbs for actual adverbs.