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 ...

A ramble through the different aspects of adjectives – words which add spice to text. Lowdown? Okay, I know! I have used an unbecoming word to encompass a class of words that are by no means sinister ...

The answer is they were all invented by William Shakespeare in order to add detail to his scripts. When the exact word he wanted wasn’t available, he would quite often combine verbs and nouns to ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

Adding a suffix usually changes the class of the word Adding a suffix can mean the class of the word remains the same but the meaning of the new word changes. Adding a suffix can cause a spelling ...