Adverbs can be your friends WAS: Re: The Return of Tom Swift

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> I was rereading PoA in the bath last night with the adverb thread 
in 
> mind, when this little gem jumped out at me. And then made me 
cringe 
> somewhat.
> *******
> 'There was nothing woolly about the Grim in that cup!' said Ron, 
> hotly.
>  'You didn't seem so sure when you were telling Harry it was a 
> sheep,' said Hermione, coolly.
> *******


"Thanks for bringing up this topic," Jen said, grumpily, "now I can't 
read anything on the main list without stumbling over the adverbs... 

Jen, who found the adverb "stumblingly" in the dictionary while 
checking her spelling. Huh? Never heard *that* one used in a 
sentence...