“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It’s terribly, awfully, horrendously important. But why? Really, adverbs aren’t ...

MODIFIERS give us information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence. They are important because they help to paint the true picture of the information we seek to convey to our reader or listener. The ...

We know what an adjective is – it's a word that modifies a noun. What about a word that modifies an adjective? That's an adverb, of course (adverbs also modify verbs and other adverbs)! OK, I'm just ...

Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball. I’m not a sports fan. I’ve been to exactly two baseball games in my life, ...