Use adverbs sparingly. At their best, they spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in the sentence: The blast completely destroyed the church office. The ...

One of the most common questions I get is: Which is correct: X or Y? The X and Y don’t matter much. They change from email to email. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a Z or even an A, B and C. But the ...

Prepositions are short words and phrases that give information about place, time and manner, eg: 'on', 'under', 'near', 'below', 'by', 'at', 'in' You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together ...

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So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary ...