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.

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...

It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Royal Order of Adjectives dictates that adjectives must appear in a certain order: opinion-size-shape-age-color-origin-material-purpose. It's why My Greek Fat Big ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But is the “rule” worthy of an internet storm – or is it more of a ripple in a teacup? Well, certainly the example is a rather ...

When the BBC's Matthew Anderson tweeted this week the rules the English language has for the order in which adjectives should appear before a noun, he was retweeted 47,000 times. He says foreigners ...