615 - Humor with Adverbs. Noisome. Receipts. Case Quarters.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week, we talk about how adverbs can be squishy in what they modify and how that can lead to funny double meanings, about the difference between "noisy" and "noisome," about why people say they "have the receipts," and about the meaning and origin of "case quarter." FOLLOW ALONG ON THE WEBSITE: Adverbs: http://bit.ly/funnyAdverbs Noisome: http://bit.ly/Noisome Receipts: http://bit.ly/TheReceipts Case Quarter: http://bit.ly/CaseQuarter FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl GRAMMAR POP iOS GAME Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopiPad For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPop GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl-book-page

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0:00.0	Gamer Girl here, I'm Minyeon Foguri.
0:07.6	This week I have a meaty middle about how to use adverbs properly.
0:11.8	A quick and dirty tip about the difference between noisy and noise sum.
0:16.4	A tidbit about why we say someone has the receipts.
0:19.9	And another tidbit about the term case quarter, because I got carried away.
0:25.4	Let's start with adverbs.
0:29.4	The grammar girl listener Lori Kio sent an interesting question.
0:33.6	She asked, is it possible for one adverb to modify multiple verbs?
0:39.8	For example, the child quickly ran and hid under the porch.
0:44.0	I have a student who labeled quickly as modifying both ran and hid.
0:50.0	I'm inclined to market as correct even though the book says that quickly simply modifies
0:54.7	ran.
0:56.7	Lori, you were right to question the book.
0:58.6	The sentence is ambiguous.
1:00.8	Let's listen to it again.
1:02.4	The child quickly ran and hid under the porch.
1:06.2	It's ambiguous because it's not entirely clear whether quickly modifies both the verbs
1:11.5	that follow it.
1:13.0	It might, in that case, the child quickly ran and quickly hid.
1:18.3	Or it might not.
1:19.9	In that case, the child ran quickly and then hid.
1:24.2	And at a normal pace, perhaps looking around carefully to find the perfect spot.
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