Pet Peeve #2–The Tale of the Deformed Adverb

My second big “pet-peeve” is when people use a verb in place of an adverb, like “It will come out beautiful!”, rather than “It will come out beautifully”.

 

I really notice this one – so much that it might just give me whiplash! Am I the only one lamenting the loss of the adverb?

 

In, Do it Real Quick, Or The Death of the Adverb, the author describes exactly what I’m writing about: http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/adverb/