Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

In marketing, it's become quite popular to use an adjective as a noun. Take a look at some examples collected by branding expert Nancy Friedman: Find your fabulous (Thai Tourism and others) From our ...

Is it just us or do movie, book and play titles often follow the same exact format? The Constant Gardener. The Great Gatsby. The Big Lebowski. Article, Adjective, Noun. In this Ask Me One More final ...

The answer is they were all invented by William Shakespeare in order to add detail to his scripts. When the exact word he wanted wasn’t available, he would quite often combine verbs and nouns to ...

The Pope wants us to stop using so many adjectives. In a speech on Monday to the Dicastery for Communications, the Vatican’s communications authority, Pope Francis urged people not to describe ...

The present study examines classroom learners' course of grammatical development in acquiring the interpretive correlates of variable adjective position in French. Eventual attainment of the target ...