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Further easily-caught sins: What EXACTLY is the problem with adverbs? you've SURELY been told try to explain better THE NEXT TIME we were togethe
by kenko 12y ago
Further easily-caught sins:
What EXACTLY is the problem with adverbs?
you've SURELY been told
try to explain better THE NEXT TIME we were together. (adverbial phrase)
and SURELY takes longer to write
we get to the destination [...] much more QUICKLY
I mean, lots of the uses of the dreaded -ly adverbs the author identifies are also instances of bad writing, but so what? Are they bad writing because they contain adverbs? Surely (!!!) one could easily (!!!) find plenty of instances of good adverb-containing writing. This sounds like a very ad-hoc justification of a rule that the author admits to never have even examined!
- baddox 12y ago> try to explain better THE NEXT TIME we were together. (adverbial phrase) Is that an adverbial phrase? The sentence doesn't work if you remove "the next time," but I don't know if that is a requirement. Normally adverbs and adverbial phrases can be removed without breaking the grammar of the sentence.
- kenko 12y agoThe whole phrase would really be "the next time we were together" but I wanted to give the ol' shifting finger a rest. (My caps lock is unmapped.)