Grammarly is a popular online service that offers grammar assistance while writing on the web. It has millions of users thanks to the free tier the company provides. Having said that, many find the ...

Change Tracker, a state-of-the-art web application designed for writers, editors, legal professionals and academics, performs sophisticated comparisons of text documents. It moves beyond simple "diff" ...

Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: those that do not carry -ly. Rather, they have the same forms as adjectives ...

I was expecting a “hello” or “hi,” statements of straightforward recognition. “Hey, you” was more knowing, more familiar. Say it in a crowd, and you place yourself and the other person in a cozy kind ...

Since it’s August, some people have deliberately left Woodland to escape the summer heat – unless they’re planning a return for the Yolo County Fair. As such, not much is going on so I thought a ...

That Casimir Markievicz exhibition (Diary, April 23rd) reminded me in passing how dependent the upper classes of these islands used to be on what grammarians call “degree adverbs”. Witness a letter, ...

Maite Taboada, Cliff Goddard, and Radoslava (Rada) Trnavac recently published a paper with Cambridge University Press that was over a decade in the making: The ‘adverb-ly adjective’ construction in ...

Never in our modern political history has so much seemed to depend on the meaning and interpretation of one word. For the past week, politicians, lawyers and columnists like me have weighed in with ...

You know those words that describe how you do something, quickly, loudly, carefully? Those are called adverbs of manner, and they’re some of the most useful adverbs ...

Teach children about adverbs with this lesson plan that includes an adverbs list featuring ‘absolutely awful’ examples from George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Then see how your class can take ...

Migraines are never fun. Some people have migraines far worse than mine, and all I can do is salute them and marvel at their ability to withstand them without threatening to disembowel everyone in ...