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.” ...
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 ...
At the Daily Dot, we hope you’re having a relaxing, long, warm Labor Day weekend. Wait. Should it be warm, relaxing, long Labor Day weekend? Apparently the order in which English speakers string ...
WHO can say what order should be used to list adjectives in English? Mark Forsyth, in “The Elements of Eloquence”, describes it as: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose and ...
This is a big, old, smelly dog! Learn which adjective has to come first. TRY THE READING ROOM: ️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room FIND ...