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"Look!" suddenly exclaimed Ned. "There's the agent now! ... I'm going to speak to him!" impulsively declared Ned.
This kind of thing has recently become very unfashionable. Writing guides completely agree on the point:
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Excess adverbiage reflects the style of an immature writer
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Some brag happily of having rarely used an adverb. And, while I feel initially a certain resistance to this aversion to the adverb, I actually cannot easily find a sentence which is not slightly or greatly improved by simply omitting the adverb.
Where do you stand?
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