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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I'm pretty good at using words, but I'm not very good at knowing what to call them, so I'm starting this thread. My first question is "What's an adverb, and how do I recognize one?" Here's a sample phrase where you can point out the adverb and explain what it does.
Sage didn't have time to feel bad about killing the big flier.
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Just write.
Now if nearly every sentence is quickly littered with longingly, lovingly, randomly, and a seemingly endless stream of ly words, you might have an adversarially problematic thing about adverbs.