Adverbs are important in writing, as they help turn drab verbs into colorful actions. Like many good things, though, people have been started using them since time immemorial. As such, the more common ones can begin sounding trite and unimaginative, eventually failing to make your verbs more descriptive than adverbs should have allowed them to be.
Overused adverbs are still valid for use as modifiers. Just because they are going to pass your error-finding writing software, however, it doesn't mean you should continue describing your action words them. Because of their lack of impact and sometimes vague nature, it's usually better to either use a different one or get rid of them entirely.
Some overused adverbs include:
1. very (while this adverb indicates heightened intensity, everyone has practically used it to imply all sorts of superlatives, making its use more trite than useful)
2. so (as in, "so big"; as an adverb, it barely adds anything to the description, so it's better to avoid at all costs)
3. kind of (another vague adverb, there are probably ten other modifiers that you can use to say the same thing, each one infinitely more descriptive)
4. totally (while this makes sense when describing an action that has been carried out to completion, it's been abused by a slew unskilled writers to describe just extra intensity, making people wary when they see it employed.
5. seems ("seeming like" something isn't very clear, yet people continue to rely on this to eke out a description)
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