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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 08/05/2013 18:02, Gordon wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>> The author Stephen King takes it a step further, advising his <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>> fellow writers to avoid not only sentence adverbs, but all adverbs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Indeed. Steven King says to *<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>show</span></b>* how a person is behaving by choosing the best descriptive action verb that actually depicts the action. No adverb is necessary unless the chosen verb fails to depict the action such that an adverb needs to be added after the fact to describe the action even further. Instead of “He closed the door forcefully,” King would prefer “He slammed the door.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br>Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com><br></span></font><a href="http://harveynewstrom.com/index.html"><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:1.0pt;background:#CCCCCC;text-decoration:none'>CISSP CISSP-ISSAP CISSP-ISSMP CSSLP CISA CISM CRISC CGEIT IAM</span></font></a><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><pre><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre></div></body></html>