Demonstrative adjectives close demonstrative adjectiveUsed to point out a specific thing or person, or to emphasise something. This, that, those and these are demonstrative adjectives in English. are ...

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. They went to an exciting football match. The adjective 'exciting' tells you more about the noun 'football match'. Adjectives can go before or after the ...

Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral”. The furore centres on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence, that adjectives appearing before a noun ...

This interesting grammar question was posted in Jose Carillo’s English Forum recently by John Johnson, a new member based in Russia: “There is no doubt that ‘mine’ is a pronoun in ‘She is an old ...

The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar, but which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas. Nonnative ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...