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I haven't tried Handler's adult-targeted work, though "Adverbs" is sitting somewhere in the long bedside stack.
October Reading List Rogers 2006
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Thanks for a wonderful interview; I need to read Adverbs.
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FakeAPStyleBook: Adverbs should be used sparingly and for greatest impact, like your mom.
HUFFPOST HILL - Dave Obey Appropriates Himself To K Street Eliot Nelson 2011
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Daniel Handler is the author of the brilliant and hilarious novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs.
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Daniel Handler is the author of the brilliant and hilarious novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Adverbs that help the reader visualize the image you want to evoke.
Wordflab Surgery: How to Put Your Writing Under the Knife | Write to Done 2009
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Adverbs and adjectives give color to writing, but can also expand word counts without adding depth.
Trouble Sticking to Your Word Count? Try These Editing Tricks | Write to Done 2008
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Adverbs like “out” and “through” get converted into nouns(“he pitched three outs”), into verbs(“a gay celebrity was outed”), and intoadjectives (“a through street”).
The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Verbal reasoning 2010
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Adverbs are deadly because they attach themselves like lampreys to commonplace verbs, and suck the life out of the search for powerful, precise verbs.
Wright's Writing Corner: The Adverb Is Dead. Long Live the Adverb. arhyalon 2010
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