Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It's terribly, awfully, ...

Superlatives are adjectives or adverbs that indicate a subject surpasses all others. By the nature of the word, there can be only one of each. We can’t correctly say: ...

In the interest of science of all kinds, I decided to do some counting of my own. I wrote a program (a python script using NLTK) to calculate the parts of speech in a document and then tried it ...

Good questions have been piling up in my inbox lately. Ed in Albany, N.Y., had a question about a recent column in which I mentioned people “who just won’t stop using the word ‘over’ wrong ...

By far the most common adverb was “finally,” which showed up nearly 1500 times. Behind it fall “additionally” and then “interestingly.” Because science is interesting, people.

Adverbs of frequency are words that tell us how often something happens. Read on to learn more about how to use adverbs like 'sometimes', ''usually' and 'never'.

Lawyers and judges modify the view that the adverb, a part of speech maligned by many writers, is not your friend. Just don’t tell Stephen King.