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5) The purple adverb. There are adverbs that don’t just clutter your prose, or indicate a weak verb, they make your prose look more purple. “He smiled thinly” is a good example of that.
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. A positive adjective describes one thing: This is a good book. A comparative adjective compares two things: This book is better than that book.
With some verbs, the question of whether to use an adjective or an adverb is subtle. For example, when you slice meat into very thin slices, you’re slicing it thin, not thinly.
So, as we have seen, therefore, outside, awhile, very, there, soon and fast are the seven adverbs in our example sentence. And in case you’re wondering about “well,” it’s not an adverb.
Hope you remember that adverbs are words that modify verbs. They tell us more about verbs in terms of when, where, why and in what circumstance an action is taking place.
208 adjectives = 12.9 percent 86 adverbs = 5.4 percent 294 adjectives and adverbs = 18.3 percent Finally, there’s a technical flaw in the whole “avoid adjectives and adverbs” admonition.
The decline of gradable adverb is most pronounced between the early 1930s and 1960s, and then levels off up to 1990s before entering a further period of steep decline from 1990s up to the present day.
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