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Every writing manual says get rid of all your adverbs. Like using passive voice, adverbs signal a greater need to find an action verb. For example, rather than writing that the girl slowly walked along the path, let’s think of an action verb to describe her pace.
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Gullion, J.S. (2016). Adverbs. In: Writing Ethnography. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-381-0_17
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