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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.


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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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Webster's Dictionary of 1864

 

The landmark edition that transformed the way dictionaries are made.

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How Do You Pronounce 'Vase'?

 

And is one way more correct than the others?

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There, They're, Their

 

There, there. We'll sort it out.

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Hopefully

 

We believe the popular usage of this word is correct

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Old-School Grammar

 

Many of today's grammar rules can be traced to the opinions of one 18th century writer.