Getting a rough sense of how verb-heavy, adverb-heavy, or adjective-heavy a piece of writing is can be a useful style signal — for instance, heavy adverb use is sometimes flagged in editing advice as a sign that stronger verb choices could tighten the prose.
This tool uses common English word-ending patterns (like -ed and -ing for verbs, -ly for adverbs, -ful/-ive/-ous for adjectives) to approximate which words likely fall into each category, without true grammatical parsing.
Because this is pattern-based rather than genuine part-of-speech tagging, it will have false positives and misses (many words ending in -ly aren't adverbs, and many verbs don't end in -ed or -ing) — treat the counts as a rough stylistic signal rather than a precise grammatical analysis.
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Frequently asked questions
How accurate is this compared to real grammatical parsing?
This uses simple word-ending pattern matching rather than true linguistic analysis, so it will have both false positives and missed words — treat it as a rough stylistic indicator rather than precise part-of-speech tagging.
Why might heavy adverb usage be flagged in writing advice?
Some editing guidance suggests that leaning on adverbs (like "walked quickly") can be a sign that a stronger, more specific verb ("hurried") might convey the same meaning more vividly.