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Long ago, I stumbled across the line, “Adjectives are fat; verbs are muscles (adverbs are cholesterol) by J. Patrick Lewis, winner of the National Council of Teachers of English 2011 Excellence in Children’s Poetry Award. American poet John Frederick Nims before him also described verbs as muscle. For Nims, nouns are bones and adverbs, not just adjectives, are fat.
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Leigh, S.R. (2014). Word Craft. In: Wounded Writers Ask. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-713-1_4
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