<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">>On Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:39 PM, Stefano Vaj wrote,</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">>> Adverbs exist for a reason.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: Arial;">>
Good point. It does sound excessive to avoid an entire class of words forever.</span></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Adverbs exist to modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. I agree with my retired English professor friend that they were never intended to modify entire clauses or sentences. </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Unfortunately, [<-- sentence adverb] this misuse of adverbs has become pretty common. I try my best to avoid them. Embarrassingly, I sometimes slip.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
12.727272033691406px;">Gordon</span></font></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div></div></div> <style><!--
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