Which brings us to the pope. In his speech to his communications staff, Francis talked more about adjectives than adverbs. But it’s clear he holds them in the same regard. He cited examples of ...

In Spanish, adjectives are usually placed after the noun they describe and they must agree in gender and number with the noun hey describe. Invariable adjectives do not change. Position of ...

Superlatives are adjectives or adverbs that indicate a subject surpasses all others. By the nature of the word, there can be only one of each. We can’t correctly say: “This is one of the worst ...

The adjective “happy” would seem like a better choice — many adults feel happy — than the adverb. So “happily” makes a good test of whether the New York Times’ sentence required an ...

So how do we produce readable and clean scientific writing? One of the good elements of style is to avoid adverbs and adjectives (Zinsser 2006). Adjectives and adverbs sprinkle paper with ...

led to a discussion in the newsroom about the advice (from Strunk & White and others) to write with nouns and verbs, not adverbs and adjectives. The adjective that drew our attention was "bizarre." ...