A Word From the People for the Ethical Treatment of Adverbs
How did an entire part of speech become off-limits?
4 min readSep 23, 2021
Two years ago, I was on a Slack board for writers and editors, reading an introductory, happy-to-be-here message from a new member. Her brief bio wrapped up with a whimsical list of loves and hates, ending with her avowed hatred of adverbs. Another writer (whom I generally held…
