Recently, I mentioned in a column that adverbs aren’t just those “ly” words that modify verbs. They’re a much larger group, including words that answer the questions “when,” “where” and “in what ...

NARRATOR: An 'adverbial' tells us more about what happened. So here, 'the man hammered the rock, 'carefully''. The adverbial tells us more about how you hammered the rock. Carefully. ROCK: He wasn't ...

“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Why do ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines variation of the Old English negators na, naht, nalles and the prefix un- in adverbial phrases of the litotes type, such ...

Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).

Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

If you’ve had to homeschool any small people lately – or even if you’re just connected to some parents on social media – you’ve likely been confronted by the baffling phrase “fronted adverbial”.