Adverbs and Verbs - Let's Agree
I was watching correspondence on verbs and adverbs.
One writer thought that adverbs should always go behind verbs. You walk quickly. You don't quickly walk. The reader wants to know what you are doing then how you do it.
Sometimes it is a matter of stressing the important word by placing it at the end of the sentence.
However, one writer said that you would tell a hairdresser: 'I badly want my hair cut.' 'I want my hair cut badly' - buyer beware.
But this sentence has two verbs, want and cut. Badly applies to the wanting, not the cutting.
That's why badly has to stay near the verb is it describing.
You can say I want it badly.
I love you madly.
I madly love you.
Funny, there is a difference.
I badly want you to learn grammar.
That's why I prefer to write songs and tell jokes with innuendo.
If you say one thing and mean another, you can pretend it was deliberate.
One writer thought that adverbs should always go behind verbs. You walk quickly. You don't quickly walk. The reader wants to know what you are doing then how you do it.
Sometimes it is a matter of stressing the important word by placing it at the end of the sentence.
However, one writer said that you would tell a hairdresser: 'I badly want my hair cut.' 'I want my hair cut badly' - buyer beware.
But this sentence has two verbs, want and cut. Badly applies to the wanting, not the cutting.
That's why badly has to stay near the verb is it describing.
You can say I want it badly.
I love you madly.
I madly love you.
Funny, there is a difference.
I badly want you to learn grammar.
That's why I prefer to write songs and tell jokes with innuendo.
If you say one thing and mean another, you can pretend it was deliberate.
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