: Re: Are adverbs as transition a bad thing? I am using prowritingaid to edit my writing and it keeps flagging all adverbs. They have a post related to it here. Yet I feel like adverbs as transition

They don't have to be.
Compare adverbs to calories: you gorge on pie and chocolate, you become fat. However, not eating results in starvation and death. Every once in a while you need an adverb.
The problem here is confiding trust in a computer. Computers are rocks with lightning trapped inside and, while exceptionally good at math, make no distinction between good and bad foods. They'll slap the 2 kCal head of lettuce from your hand and shout 'No! Bad! It ends in -ly so it must secretly be chocolate cake!'
Wrest control back from your computer. A sentence reads better with an adverb? Then ignore the red Twizzler drawn under it.

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