Aside from the noun and pronoun, another widely-used part of speech in English is the adjective. It is often used in giving a description about a noun which refers to a name of person, place, thing, ...

Image A is much more detailed and visually descriptive. Descriptive writing, like these images, transforms an ordinary piece of writing into writing with high definition and detail. This allows the ...

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 ...

I have recently embarked on a series of posts covering adjectives, driven by a simple rationale: to provide students and language enthusiasts with a toolkit for richer expression in their writing and ...

An adjective modifies only words that are nouns. It can come before the noun, or can come after a verb, but it modifies the noun. An adverb modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. It does not ...

So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with unnecessary ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most ...

Is there something unforgivably, infuriatingly obfuscatory about the unrestrained use of adjectives and adverbs? Many celebrated stylists think so. Crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died last week, ...