Quotes About Adverbs

Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.

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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Breathe deep." "Deeply," I forced out through my tingling mouth. "What?" "Deeply. Adverbs follow verbs." "Seriously? You're giving me a grammar lesson in the middle of your barfing?

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Aspect or quality of a verb had, I believe, nothing originally to do with time; aspect in fact cuts clean across time. Aspect in most languages is now at least indicated for the most part by adverbs. I run — quickly; I stand — still; in this sense many verbs have hundreds of aspects.

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Adjectives are my guitly pleasure.

To get maximum effect, put adverbs at the beginning or end of the sentence: "Angrily, he walked away." Or, "He walked away angrily." Though special cases may justify "He walked angrily away," or the like, most often the effect of the modifier upon the reader is lost.

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Reid took note: the first two ly words. He'd found that suspects who turned out to be guilty tended to use adverbs, thinking they were being more convincing. He also noticed the way Pete emphasized "the right kind of investigation," marking his territory as a genius and the smartest person in the room. Reid would use that.

To understand the difference between a good adverb and a bad adverb, consider these two sentences: "She smiled happily" and "She smiled sadly." Which one works best? The first seems weak because "smiled" contains the meaning of "happily." On the other hand, "sadly" changes the meaning.

Cautious men have many adverbs, "usually," "nearly," "almost ": safe men begin, " it may be advanced " : you never know precisely what their premises are, nor what their conclusion is; they go tremulously like a timid rider; they turn hither and thither; they do not go straight across a subject, like a masterly mind.

Ly" adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer's intent.

I have always wanted to be able to express music and love and the things that I have felt in their own proper language – not like this, not like this with the procession of particular English verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns and prepositions that rolls before you now towards this full-stop and the coming paragraph of yet more words.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

The homeliest service that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plough or dig, if done in obedience and conscience of God's commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best works for their kind, preaching, praying, offering evangelical sacrifices, if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. God loveth adverbs; and careth not how good, but how well.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Don Basilio era un hombre de aspecto feroz y bigotes frondosos que no se andaba con ñoñerías y suscribía la teoría de que un uso liberal de adverbios y la adjetivación excesiva eran cosa de pervertidos y gentes con deficiencias vitamínicas.