Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

Covid-19 statistics from our Health ministry are too depressing. Generally, the attitude of Kenyans towards the pandemic has been casual, but last week’s exponential rise in cases has compelled a ...

Aspiring science-fiction authors receive one piece of advice above all others: Forsake the adverb, the killer of prose. It’s terribly, awfully, horrendously important. But why? Really, adverbs aren’t ...

One of the most common questions I get is: Which is correct: X or Y? The X and Y don’t matter much. They change from email to email. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a Z or even an A, B and C. But the ...

Ned in Albany had a question about the phrase, used in this column, “that works out great.” He asked, “Isn’t ‘great’ an adjective and what’s it modifying here? Shouldn’t it be ‘well’ in uncorrupted ...

Use adverbs sparingly. At their best, they spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in the sentence: The blast completely destroyed the church office. The ...

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'. Adverbs of frequency can be quite ...

Example: I went to the beach, and I got a sunburn. The two independent clauses in this sentence are “I went to the beach” and “I got a sunburn.” The coordinating conjunction is “and.” Other ...