8.176 linking adverbs

You can put 'and' between adverbs.

• Mary was breathing quietly and evenly.
• We have to keep airports running smoothly and efficiently.
• They walk up and down, smiling.

When you link contrasting adverbs, you put 'but' or 'yet' between them.

• Quickly but silently she darted out of the cell.

If you want to say that neither of two adverbs applies, you use a negative sentence with 'or' between the adverbs, or you put 'neither' in front of the first adverb and 'nor' in front of the second one.

• They will not come down very quickly or very far.
• The story ends neither happily nor unhappily.

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For information on how to coordinate more than two adjectives, see paragraph 8.189.