Stephen King cleverly tells us that the road to hell is thickly paved with adverbs, those modifiers of verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. They don't always end in -ly, although they often do. (In the previous sentence, always and often are adverbs.)
Adverbs get a bum rap, in my opinion. Like salt in our suppers and passive voice in our writing, they are essential to our language but are easily overdone.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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great analogy between adverbs and salt! love this post.
nutschell
www.thewritingnut.com
I'm a big Stephen King fan and love his book, On Writing. He always gives good advise. You make an excellent point though about being necessary, but people overdoing it. Great post!
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Very interesting post. I love Steven King, and I think you're right about them being like salt. A few might spice things up, but overdoing it is fatal.
Sarah Allen
(my creative writing blog)
Adverbs as salt. Like the analogy. What about salty adverbs themselves?
I'm in agreement with you. The way I see it is 'everything in moderation'. Thanks for stopping by my blog today.
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