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 ...

Adjectives describe nouns. In grammatical jargon, we say they “modify” nouns. One noun can support more than one adjective, as in “a vicious, interminable quarrel.” The adjectives “vicious” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I wasn’t working on a story at the time. I called the Washington DC print bureau of the AP. I spoke with the duty editor, and I was transferred to the “Political Editor” who was in charge of the ...

Sometime in the 20 th century, shit—having already long been a verb and then a noun—also became an adjective, as in He was a shit teacher or That restaurant has shit service. Exactly when this ...

Prenominal adjectives precede the noun its modifies and it must occur in the same NP (see L222). Consider the italicized parts of the following two sentences: (1) The student is eager. (2) The eager ...

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 ...