Editorial Inspirations

What is your very first memory?

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When visiting my great-grandmother while growing up, the children often went outside to play. We played games around the house, but we also sat on the porch and swung on the swing. Though I only saw these cousins when visiting this house, some of us grew close and anticipated visiting our great-grandmother at the same time.

Upon her death, my cousin Cody and I sat next to one another at the funeral service. “You know,” I whispered to him, “we will probably never see each other again.”

He nodded his head.

We returned to the house for the reception, swinging on the porch swing and reminiscing of when we played on this porch.

With no one to live in the house, it was sold. And a few years later, Cody died in a car accident.

Several organizations have teamed up to create “N,” a series of made-for-mobile phone video episodes adapted from a story in Stephen King’s forthcoming story collection Just After Sunset.

Drawn by a team from Marvel, adapted by TV show creator Marc Guggenheim with King, and featuring a full cast of voice actors, the two-minute episodes were released one per weekday between July 28 and August 29. The episodes will be available to mobile phone users at no extra charge through CBS Mobile, on the Web through CBS Audience Network and its partners, and at www.nishere.com. Episodes will also be available for paid download at $.99 for five, or $3.99 for all 25.

A limited printed collectors’ edition of the book, packaged with a DVD of all 25 episodes, will be available when the regular edition of Just After Sunset goes on sale in November.

Adjectives are words that describe nouns or pronouns. They may come before (The cute kitten is sitting on the chair.) or they may come after the word (The kitten is cute.) they describe.

Adverbs are words that describe everything but nouns and pronouns. They describe adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs. Adverbs answer the questions how, when, or where.

The adverbs that cause grammatical confusion are the ones that answer how. Below are some guidelines to help distinguish between adverbs and adjectives.

Guideline 1: If a word answers the question how, it is usually an adverb.

Guideline 2: When describing taste, smell, look or feel, instead of asking if these senses answer the question how, ask if the sense verb is being used actively.

Examples

Flowers smell sweet/sweetly.
Do the flowers actively smell with noses? Since they do not, “sweet” is the correct word.

Try It!

Select which word is appropriate for each sentence.

1. She thinks slow/slowly.

2. We performed bad/badly.

3. The woman looked angry/angrily.

4. The boy jumped quick/quickly.

5. The hamburger tasted disgusting/disgustingly.