What’s Everyone Got Against Adverbs?
Is your writing adverb-free? I hope not. Here’s my case in favor of those lushly descriptive modifiers of verbs.
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Is your writing adverb-free? I hope not. Here’s my case in favor of those lushly descriptive modifiers of verbs.
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