## Metadata - Author: [[ia|Ia]] - Full Title:: Using Parts of Speech to Improve Your Writing - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://ia.net/writer/support/writing-tips/parts-of-speech - Finished date:: [[2023-04-01]] ## Highlights > you care about writing, you need to treat adverbs like monsters. When it comes to monsters and writing Stephen King has the best tips: ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gwwq573ffnckjbp9agcv5ax7)) > What they oppose is adjectives that bloat. Strunk and White do not oppose a grammatical category, they oppose unnecessary words. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gwwq7hsmchhfg66ddgfnt1r1)) > Highlighting your nouns will help you canning the text for its nominal structure and find unwanted repetition ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gwwq96svay46wrb16wjhz8h4)) > most often, conjunctions are just put in sentences without any connection at all. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gwwqbkfmzjwry298abxhr8gt))