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When you unthinkingly use far too many adverbs in your writing, you clearly reduce an otherwise well-written piece to an increasingly confusing and complex mass
by jnbiche 13y ago
When you unthinkingly use far too many adverbs in your writing, you clearly reduce an otherwise well-written piece to an increasingly confusing and complex mass of terribly overwrought words.
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When you use too many adverbs in your writing, you reduce a well-written piece to a confusing mass of words.
- Steuard 13y agoIs your point here that cramming extra adverbs into one's writing just for their own sake is poor style? That's what your example seems to illustrate, and I emphatically agree. But when adverbs come up naturally in expressing an idea, I'd hate to suggest to anyone that it's a bad thing!
- lclarkmichalek 13y agoKind of a funny example, given that you change the meaning from one sentence to another.
- jnbiche 13y agoPrecisely!