I realize that diagramming is probably not taught in schools very often these days, but I remember dissecting sentences for 45 minutes a day with Mrs. Pankratz back in the late 70s.
For some reason, most people these days don't seem to understand that an ADVERB is a word that modifies the very in your sentence and generally ends in an "LY". See that word GENERALLY in the last sentence? That was the adverb, boys and girls!
Sportscasters and athletes seem especially bad at properly using the english language when it comes to adverbs.
Maybe they did not enjoy Schoolhouse Rock as much as I did.....
Granted, some of them are much younger than I am, but that is no excuse for not practicing good grammar. They understand the basic concept, as they usually choose the correct adjective that could be easily converted into the matching adverb, but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades, right?
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Sportscasters and athletes seem especially bad at properly using the english language when it comes to adverbs.
Maybe they did not enjoy Schoolhouse Rock as much as I did.....
Granted, some of them are much younger than I am, but that is no excuse for not practicing good grammar. They understand the basic concept, as they usually choose the correct adjective that could be easily converted into the matching adverb, but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades, right?
Thanks for sharing this. So nice to see a post from you this evening. I really like it.
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