Today's Ypulse Author Spotlight is on Julie Kraut and her fun summer camp read Slept Away, the story of spoiled Upper East teen Laney Parker leaving behind her city comforts to face the unplugged wilderness that is sleep away camp. I figured, with... Read the rest of this post
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By Anatoly Liberman
Looking Back
As always, I am grateful for comments. So far, I have received the most responses to my post on the death of the adverb. One of our correspondents notes that students in creative writing tend to put adverbs at the beginning of the sentence, as in “Happily, she met her boyfriend at the mall.” Sorrowfully, I have also noticed this mannerism, and not only in students’ stories. The adverb, nearly wiped out by morphology in American English, is doing “just fine” in syntax. For instance, the authors of scholarly publications love the word undoubtedly; they use it when arguments are weak and doubt exists. Obviously, certainly, and definitely serve the same purpose. Actually has become the bane of our life. (more…)
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