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.

Did you know there is a particular order to adjectives in English? When using more than one adjective to describe a noun, we have to put adjectives in a certain order for the sentence to make sense.

If you significantly alter that order, you might make it difficult for your listeners or readers to even understand the meaning. Whittling French green lovely rectangular silver old little knife ...

Adjectives in English must always be used in a very precise order. And even though none of us has officially learned this rule, placeholderwe somehow all know to follow it, and that things seem very ...

Have you ever wondered why some writing feels vivid and engaging while other texts seem flat and lifeless? The secret often lies in the strategic use of descriptive words, specifically, knowing when ...

QUITE a few grammar rules are surprisingly badly known by people who make it their business to tell other people how to write. Many journalists apply the Associated Press style book to their prose as ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...