I would say ‘woman’ used to be a noun…– Deborah Tannen
I would say ‘woman’ used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in
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I would say ‘woman’ used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in
I figure anytime you put an adjective before ‘writer,’ it’s a way of dismissing the writer.
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father’s peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on ‘defamatory.’
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in ‘straw-man device, technique or issue,’ was popularized in American culture by ‘The
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it’s meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more… morely.
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you’re setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It’s a slightly bigger moon; I ain’t using the adjective ‘supermoon.’
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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