A while ago I read a story about an author who had a substance that he painted on a page and all of the adverbs would lift off and float out the window (where they found their way to an advertising company). I wish I could find it quickly.

I found a list of about 1200 frequently used adverbs and this detector will check your prose for adverbs. Adverbs should be banished from your stories.

Some of the adverbs in the list can be used as other parts of speech. They will show up here as problems, but you will have to decide if they are being used as adverbs or something else. Not everyone agrees that adverbs are bad, but there is some agreement that adverbs are often overused.

Copy your story and paste it into the box below and then submit. The adverbs will be highlighted in Red. (There are some adverbs in this text if you need some text to copy in order to test the code.)