A literary friend and colleague tells me her three-year-old granddaughter is lovingly, lately, [serial comma obeyed] and lushly taken with adverbs. She loves starting sentences with adverbs. In a nod and salute to her, here is a twenty-fold parade of adverbs:
1. laconically
2. Catonically
3. pianissimo
4. apodictically
5. voluptuously
6. asymptotically
7. munificently
8. coterminously
9. late
10.seriatim
11.sotto voce
12.eschatologically
13.latently
14.preternaturally
15.fast
16.upstairs
17.yesterday
18.neverthless
19.always
20.very
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Diagramming the Flowering Crab
The crabapple's blossoms masquerading as paper carnations.
Blossoms of crabapple masquerading as paper carnations.
Crabapple blossoms masquerading as paper carnations.
They masquerade as paper carnations.
Masquerade as paper carnations, crabapple blossoms.
Papercarnationally crabapple blossoms masquerading.
. . . and crabapple blossoms masqueraded as incarnations of paper, pink.
Like paperpinkishcarnations, the crabapple blossoms parade or was it masquerade.
Hark! Crabapple blossoms! Alas! Martian-pink-carnal-carnationesque -incantatory buds unhidden!
Blossoming crababble, masquerade is papercarnationing.
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