To save this word, you’ll need to log in. Some commentators claim that slow cooker beef short ribs writers avoid the adverb slow, in spite of the fact that it has had over four centuries of usage.

In actual practice, slow and slowly are not used in quite the same way. Slow is almost always used with verbs that denote movement or action, and it regularly follows the verb it modifies. The buyers were slow to act, and the house was sold to someone else. He was a quiet boy who seldom spoke, and some people thought he was a little slow. Business is slow during the summer. The first few chapters are slow, but after that it gets better.