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Originally Posted by irmamar
The book that I'm reading now says:
... people manage to communicate extremely effectively and relatively unproblematically...
I don't like so many consecutive '-ly forms', but that's just my opinion  . What do you think when reading a sentence like this? I would have tried to avoid such a quantity of adverbs following one another. Do you think that it's common in English?
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I agree that it does not read well, but to me it does not stick out as being particularly bad either. I would have written
... people manage to communicate extremely effectively and with relatively few problems ...
just to reduce to -ly forms. These days, I'm glad to see somebody has not forgotten about adverbs, they seem to be dying out.