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Month: August 2021

Posted on 7 August 202123 November 2022

Misplaced Adverbs: Sadly Abused?

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Photo credit: Jens Aber

My ‘lazy language’ file gets fatter every day. It’s absolutely bulging with examples of errors in written texts, made by those who should know better. And many of them are cases of misplaced adverbs.

They can mangle meaning, and turn a sentence into a piece of nonsense.

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