Recently, I mentioned in a column that adverbs aren’t just those “ly” words that modify verbs. They’re a much larger group, including words that answer the questions “when,” “where” and “in what ...

Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines variation of the Old English negators na, naht, nalles and the prefix un- in adverbial phrases of the litotes type, such ...

If you’ve had to homeschool any small people lately – or even if you’re just connected to some parents on social media – you’ve likely been confronted by the baffling phrase “fronted adverbial”.

This quintessentially polite request was made by Forum member Na30r some years back: “If you don’t mind please explain the ‘reducing of adverb clauses.’” (When someone makes a request in such nuanced ...

NARRATOR: An 'adverbial' tells us more about what happened. So here, 'the man hammered the rock, 'carefully''. The adverbial tells us more about how you hammered the rock. Carefully. ROCK: He wasn't ...

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I am gladly, fully, openly in support of adverbs. Despite our democratic ideals, schoolchildren throughout America learn that not all words are created equal: Nouns and verbs make sense of the world, ...