No part of speech has had to put up with so much adversity as the adverb. The grammatical equivalent of cheap cologne or trans fat, the adverb is supposed to be used sparingly, if at all, to modify ...

Many of us oldsters remember being taught in school that there are eight parts of speech, but I find that, when I try to remember what I was taught, I usually come up with nine.  When I look at ...

Recently, I mentioned in a column that adverbs aren’t just those “ly” words that modify verbs. They’re a much larger group, including words that answer the questions “when,” “where” and “in what ...