How to choose a stronger verb
Rebuild this sentence in your own words before you read how I would.
She quickly ran out of the room and loudly shut the door angrily behind her.
Every sentence has one load-bearing word, and it is nearly always the verb. When the verb is weak, the sentence knows, and it compensates the only way it can: it hires adverbs.
The sentence
She quickly ran out of the room and loudly shut the door angrily behind her.
A composite — built from a pattern that appears on many students' pages, not quoted from any one of them.
The diagnosis
Three adverbs in sixteen words, and each one is doing repair work. Quickly ran is a patch for a verb that should have been bolted or fled. Loudly shut is a patch for slammed. And angrily is patching something no adverb can fix, because anger isn't a manner of closing a door — it's the reason the door got closed that way, and the right verb carries the reason inside it. The sentence isn't overwritten. It's under-verbed.
Three moves
Move one — strike the adverbs and read what's left. She ran out of the room and shut the door behind her. Cleaner already — and now the weakness is visible instead of bandaged. The sentence is grammatical, calm, and wrong: nothing in it is angry.
Move two — make each verb absorb its adverb. For each cut adverb, ask what verb would make it unnecessary. Quickly ran: fled. Loudly shut: slammed. The test for the replacement is that adding the old adverb back should sound ridiculous — quickly fled, loudly slammed — because the verb already owns that meaning.
She fled the room and slammed the door behind her.
Move three — check what the strong verbs now imply. Fled implies fear; slammed implies fury. Both at once might be exactly right — people do run from their own tempers — but it's now a choice the writer must make deliberately rather than an accident of patching. If the moment is pure anger, stormed out and slammed agree with each other.
The after
She stormed out and slammed the door behind her.
Eight words. The anger the original kept asserting is now simply present, delivered by two verbs that needed no assistance.
The principle
The verb carries the sentence. Adverbs are not forbidden — sometimes gently is the whole point. But an adverb should add a meaning the verb couldn't hold, never prop up one it dropped. The working test: cut the adverb and ask whether a better verb could replace the pair. If yes, the sentence was carrying a passenger.