Maybe your heart is broken, or you want to say someone’s smile is beautiful or that you feel it in your soul. Then, you have noun shame. You wouldn’t dare let those over used words drip out of your ...

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 ...

Use this primary English game to improve your use of nouns and adjectives. You get to be an editor who creates a bestselling horror story from a fairly dull one. Choose effective nouns and adjectives ...

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 ...

You probably noticed this place is called Mount Scary. Well, that’s not because of the mountain. Allow me to explain. Y’see, she’s not just a yeti… she’s a scary yeti. Scary is an adjective. An ...

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 ...

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 ...

This list started with (all right, was stolen from) a tweet by Dafydd Foster Evans, who pointed out, as a matter of “random linguistic nerdery” that elect, as in president-elect, is one of the few ...

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 ...

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) What is ...