{"id":4306,"date":"2025-02-03T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2025-01-18T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:56:22","slug":"one-more-adjective-one-more-adverb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/02\/one-more-adjective-one-more-adverb\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Adjective, One More Adverb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Often, with the best of intentions, groups of people writing something add needless adjective and adverbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a group of persons. They are writing directions, a memo, something important or seemingly so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone, earnestly with the best of intentions, suggests, &#8220;We should change &#8216;calculate performance&#8217; to &#8216;carefully calculate detailed performance.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just add one adjective and one more adverb so that the reader understands how important this is and does a really good job with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One: Everyone in this place understands the importance. Everyone is this place does a good job. If they don&#8217;t, they shouldn&#8217;t be here and we shouldn&#8217;t be assigning them work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two: extra words don&#8217;t add meaning to a document. The opposite occurs. People skim longer documents and read shorter ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strunk and White advised to omit needless words. Many writing teachers since have advocated nouns and verbs over adjectives and adverbs. Still, well-meaning people toss them in like adding sugar to a peach pie. Needless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Often, with the best of intentions, groups of people writing something add needless adjective and adverbs. There is a group of persons. They are writing directions, a memo, something important or seemingly so. Someone, earnestly with the best of intentions, suggests, &#8220;We should change &#8216;calculate performance&#8217; to &#8216;carefully calculate detailed performance.&#8217;&#8221; Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,114,113,32,484,243,5],"tags":[228,226,225,154,485,244,128],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","category-brevity","category-clarity","category-communication","category-meaning","category-reading","category-writing","tag-authentic","tag-brevity","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-meaning","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}