This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines variation of the Old English negators na, naht, nalles and the prefix un- in adverbial phrases of the litotes type, such ...

“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Why do ...

NARRATOR: An 'adverbial' tells us more about what happened. So here, 'the man hammered the rock, 'carefully''. The adverbial tells us more about how you hammered the rock. Carefully. ROCK: He wasn't ...

Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).