Ours would be an awfully dull world if we didn’t have adjectives. Adjectives, words that describe or identify a person or thing – the beautiful troll, the syrupy pizza, the purple people-eater – are ...

Demonstrative adjectives close demonstrative adjectiveUsed to point out a specific thing or person, or to emphasise something. This, that, those and these are demonstrative adjectives in English. are ...

Superlatives close superlativeA word that describes the most of something: the biggest, strongest, fastest. are used to compare things and say which one is the biggest, strongest, fastest, etc or the ...

Learn about adjectives - describing words to make things more interesting… tastier, smellier, and better looking. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons.

tall, thin boy, heavy, drenching rain, etc. Select adjectives from the following sentences and make a list of them. Fat, black and red feathered chickens scratched the earth, looking for insects to ...

Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral”. The furore centres on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence, that adjectives appearing before a noun ...

Adjectives are words which describe nouns, and they have to agree with what they describe. This means that the form found in a dictionary (ending in -o or -e) changes its ending depending on whether ...