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Mastering Adverbs: Enhance Your Writing Skills

Learn the purpose and types of adverbs (intensifying & modifying) and how to use them effectively to strengthen your writing. Discover examples and techniques for integrating adverbs seamlessly into your sentences.

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Mastering Adverbs: Enhance Your Writing Skills

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  1. Adverbs… …or, slaughter your children

  2. Adverbs • Adverbs modify other words, specifically verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. • Many adverbs end in –ly. (Easily, fluently, etc)

  3. Adverb Purposes • There are two types of adverbs: intensifying and modifying

  4. Intensifying Adverbs • Intensifying: enhance the meaning of a word (usually a verb) • Intensifying adverbs provide standard, expected descriptions of how something is done • EX: Umkulthoum barfed messily • EX: Umkulthoum barfed disgustingly • Intensifying adverbs tell the degree to which something is done • EX: Trevor’s femur was broken horribly • EX: Trevor’s femur was barely broken • AVOID THESE WHENEVER POSSIBLE

  5. Modifying Adverbs • Modifying: change the meaning of a word in a significant and unexpected way • EX: Umkulthoum barfed daintily • EX: Umkulthoum barfed enticingly • These adverbs are OCCASIONALLY acceptable and effective

  6. What to do with an intensifying adverb • There are two choices of what to do with an intensifying adverb: • Eliminate the adverb and keep the verb the same • Do this when the verb is a strong action verb • Umkulthoum barfed messily • Eliminate the adverb and change the verb • Do this to replace a weak, bland, vague, or unsatisfying verb with a strong action verb • Trevor’s femur was pulverized horribly

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