Or, Things People Should Stop Saying
Literally: If you'd like to put some emphasis into your statement, trying saying "genuinely." More often than not, that's what you're going for.
Y'all: It doesn't make you sound cute, country, and cuddly. It makes you sound uneducated.
Any verb without noun or object, as a statement of strong emotion: I know this is a by-product of social media responses, but again, it reads as lazy. Whatever happened to the lessons we learned with Schoolhouse Rock? Love. Need. Want. Dislike. How much effort is really required to write, "I love what you wrote. I need this pair of shoes/mug with my favorite rock star on it/t-shirt, I dislike that bullying is so commonplace"?
So, in the interest of becoming the articulate people we once were, let's re-visit the wise words of Mr. Morton's narrator. Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence, and what the predicate says, he does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdUXxdmhIsw
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