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#adjectives — Public Fediverse posts
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With the right #adjectives, you can make almost anyone believe almost anything.
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"You're such an adjective, that I never want to see you again!"
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The Naked Sentence: Why Stripping Respects Your Reader
Author John K Danenbarger explains the importance of stripping unnecessary adjectives and adverbs from sentences.
The post The Naked Sentence: Why Stripping Respects Your Reader appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/the-naked-sentence-why-stripping-respects-your-reader#WriteBetterFiction #WritingTechniques #Adjectives #Adverbs #EditingProcess
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Here are some examples of adjectives to use speeches or writing that can be helpful for all ages. #speech #writing #adjectives
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Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of word.
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Following the standard adjective order in english, shouldn’t it be “mutant teenage ninja turtles”?
#linguistics #english #teenageMutantNinjaTurtles #TMNT #adjectiveOrder #adjectives #wordOrder -
#Connections today was truly unhinged. #Adjectives? Really??
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Adjective ordering: Linguistics review of research on the way multiple adjectives are ordered in human language
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-041835
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Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of word.
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New episode of the #Register -Podcast @sfb1412 is online! About #Adjectives, #MiddleEnglish and register variation diachronically observed. With Artemis Alexiadou @zas_berlin und Tom McFadden
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"If you get him away from 'very, very, very' ... you know, the #adjectives ... they're unfamiliar to him and they sort of spill out, and he goes too far," #Barr said. "He's not very disciplined when it comes to what he says."
Shut up. You voluntarily worked for him. You knew what he was. You did it anyway. If you had any decency you'd never open your mouth in public again as #penance for being duped by a toddler.
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Today in BoneQuest History for August 26th 2017 "CHEMICALS AND HEAVY METALS" https://bonequest.com/6744 #bonequest :pants: :spigot: #adjectives #cooking #double_entendre #gay #pants_spigot #science #sfw
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Here's a CSPAN host giving a maga jerk an English lesson.("Democrat" is not an adjective.)
#maga #CSPAN #USPol #English #nouns #adjectives #democrat #democratic #republican #republican
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Need a #poem to brighten your day? Head on over to my blog where you'll find my latest #poetry post, featuring 'Life' by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855).
It's a delightfully optimistic and positive poem, just what we need on hump day 😃
The post includes #vocabulary exercises on #adjectives and #adverbs; have fun with those! 🤓
https://grammaticus.blog/2023/03/29/life-by-charlotte-bronte/
#CharlotteBronte #EnglishLiterature #LearningEnglish #EnglishTeacher #uplifting #PositiveVibes #optimism
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‘Life’ by Charlotte Brontë
Originally published in 1846, Life is a three-stanza poem by the eldest of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte. It appeared in their first, self-published, collection of works which—unpromisingly—sold only two copies. However, only a year later Charlotte managed to get her novel Jane Eyre published, and the rest is history, as they say.
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)Life is a delightfully optimistic poem. In stanza 1, the poet counters the prevailing opinion of the wise men (the ‘sages’), positing that life is not as gloomy and difficult as it’s often claimed. If and when there is hardship, it’s there only to enable something better to come out of it.
The very brief second stanza is a poetic take on the carpe diem philosophy of life: life is short and fleeting; seize the day and make the best of it! In the longest, third stanza, Brontë muses on the power of hope and courage, using a number of adjectives and adverbs to describe their characteristics.
Speaking of adjectives and adverbs, there’s a vocabulary exercise below the poem intended for English language learners. I hope you find it useful! And if you’d like to learn more about the Brontë sisters, have a look at my selection of resources for further study.
Life, believe, is not a dreamSo dark as sages say;Oft a little morning rainForetells a pleasant day.Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,But these are transient all;If the shower will make the roses bloom,O why lament its fall ?Rapidly, merrily,Life's sunny hours flit by,Gratefully, cheerily,Enjoy them as they fly !What though Death at times steps inAnd calls our Best away ?What though sorrow seems to win,O'er hope, a heavy sway ?Yet hope again elastic springs,Unconquered, though she fell;Still buoyant are her golden wings,Still strong to bear us well.Manfully, fearlessly,The day of trial bear,For gloriously, victoriously,Can courage quell despair!
VOCABULARY EXERCISES
- Match the following adjectives related to the poem above with their definitions or synonyms:
TRANSIENT | RAPID | MERRY | GRATEFUL | CHEERY | ELASTIC | UNCONQUERED | BUOYANT | MANFUL
- capable of floating; not easily depressed; cheerful
- flexible, resilient, springy
- lasting a short time, temporary
- thankful
- fast, quick, sudden
- bold, brave, courageous, strong
- lively, cheerful, joyous
- not defeated or overcome
- happy, bright, joyful
- All of the above adjectives have an adverb form—except one. Which one is it? And can you make the adverbs out of these adjectives?
Check your answers in the answer key!
ADDITIONAL READING
Charlotte Brontë – biography on the English History website
Ten Facts About the Most Interesting Literary Family – a Book Riot listicle
Cover photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash.
NOTES
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#19thCentury #adjectives #adverbs #CharlotteBronte #EnglishLiterature #EnglishVocabulary #learningEnglish #poem #poetry #vocabularyQuiz
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Your life isn't dependent on your experiences. It is dependent on you and what you do with the experiences you have in your head.
Your perception is fully your choice and under your control in every minute.
Your perception is not pre-determined.
Your perception should not be based on what everybody else thinks.
Your perception is affected by the pain you hold onto, but this is something that you can manage and learn to work with.
Your perception can and should be separate from your judgement of the situation as good or bad. Judgement is the ego getting in there and messing with your perception. When you take control of your perception, you don't have to fight with your ego. The goal is not to remove judgment. The goal is to understand the judgement and how it affects our perception.
The situation can be bad, but if you control your perception then you can find the reason for the experience and actually end up being grateful for it. This helps keep you out of the stories of blame, shame, guilt, and victimization.
The experiences just are. They happen. Without all the pain and drama, what I call color that you add in, it's just a story of who said or did what. If you didn't add all the adjectives it would be really boring. Try taking all the adjectives out of your favorite novel. How much fun is that to read? It's not right? So do the same with your life. Take the adjectives out. What does that do to your perception?
The color is a filter over your perception. That filter isn't all that helpful to you. It certainly makes things interesting to watch, but it skews your perception, creates pain, and causes you to be upset.
You may not be able to control the experiences you have in your life but you can control your perception of them. When you learn to do that, you will immediately feel better.
Love to all.
Della
#perception #filter #colorful #adjectives #spirituality #healing #selfmastery #crowdfunded #writer #author #indieauthor
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Does this sound familiar to you?
Pay close attention to #adjectives. The people lying or trying to have their way irregardless of the truth tend to use a lot more of them those whose story adds up.
Adjectives are often used by #malicious people to conjure up emotional reactions, steering people toward their point of view.
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Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of words.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English #Writer #Writing #WriterCommunity #Language -
An explanation of the preferred order of adjectives in English
OSASCOMP: (linguistics, mnemonic) Order of adjectives: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
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@vmousseau The world would be a much better place if what' you've just said didn't have to be said... but it'd be an even better place if the #adjectives could be dropped altogether and we just referred to, and thought of, each other as humans, and just left it at that.
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#Esperanto is a flexible and expressive #language. But it has a strict #grammar, what makes it easy to learn. I.e., #substantives end with -o, #adjectives end with -a etc.
Few examples:
homo - human being
viro - man
viroj - men
virino - woman
virinoj - women
kato - cat
virkato - male cat
katino - female cat
katido - kitten
virkatido - m. kitten
katidino - f. kitten
katego - huge cat
kateto - tiny cat
virkatego - huge m. cat
katinego - huge f. cat
virkateto - tiny m. cat
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Hey mastopeeps, if I described something (not a plant) as "treelike" what would you think I was saying about it?
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A grand Irish usage
In Irish English, the word grand has the familiar meanings: impressive, magnificent, high-ranking, very large, etc. – size being etymologically salient – but its most common use is in the dialectal sense ‘OK, fine, satisfactory’. As such it often appears in brief, affirmative replies:
How’s it going?
Grand, thanks.Was the sea cold?
It was grand.How did the interview go?
I got on grand.I’ll pick you up in an hour.
Grand.I’m sorry about that.
Ah no, you’re grand. [Don’t worry about it.]This use of grand is so routine and prevalent in Ireland that it’s virtually a state of mind (and hence popular in T-shirt designs and the like). This comes in handy for understatement in injurious situations:
News site TheJournal.ie makes frequent use of grand in its story tags, such as ‘grand job’ (OK, fine), ‘grand so’ (OK, fine), ‘sure it’s grand’ (it’s fine, it’ll do), and ‘be grand’ (It’ll be grand, i.e., It’ll do fine). It also puts it in headlines:
Grand has more strongly positive connotations in some contexts, such as the popular phrase grand stretch, referring to the longer evenings in spring and summer. Here’s an Irish Examiner piece:
The closeness of these senses is apparent in the OED, which categorizes them together (A11a) as a colloquial usage ‘historically commoner in North American, Scottish, Irish English, and English regional usage than in standard British English’. It defines it thus:
Used as a general term to express strong admiration, approval, or gratification: magnificent, splendid; excellent; highly enjoyable. Also: (in weakened use, chiefly Irish English) satisfactory, fine, all right. Also in ironic use.
The OED separates off sense A11b, limiting it to people’s state of being: ‘well, in good health. Frequently in negative contexts.’
Use of grand can stray into ambiguity. If you offer someone dessert and they say ‘Grand’, it means they accept – though without particular enthusiasm. If they say ‘You’re grand’ or ‘I’m grand’, they don’t. (Often, though, declining a first offer is just politeness; offer again, with more encouragement, and they may well accept. ‘Ah, go on, so.’)
Flaw in Hibero-English that yes and no ("grand" vs "I'm grand") virtually indistinguishable. Just accepted lift offer and person drove off.
— Eoin Butler 🇵🇸 (@eoinbutler) April 17, 2013
Ambiguity between the main standard sense (‘impressive, magnificent’) and the main Irish sense (‘OK, acceptable’) can also arise, as it did momentarily for me when I read these lines in The Enemy by Lee Child:
We found the O Club without any trouble. It occupied half of one of the ground-floor wings of the main building. It was a grand space, with high ceilings and intricate plaster mouldings.
Irish English dictionaries’ treatments of grand are worth noting. Here are three reputable sources:
Brewer’s Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable, by Sean McMahon and Jo O’Donoghue, sums up the Irish usage as indicating ‘modest satisfaction’, adding that it’s also used (as in standard dialects) ‘as a synonym of “posh”, with an implication of snobbery: “She’s very grand.”’
The late Terry Dolan’s Dictionary of Hiberno-English says the adjective is ‘used very widely in HE to indicate a general sense of wellbeing’, and cites Shay Healy (Irish Daily Mail, 23 December 2009) describing it as ‘a powerful word that can confirm the truth or varnish a lie in a way that keeps the social wheels permanently oiled’.
Bernard Share, in Slanguage, defines grand as ‘fine, first-class, all right’ and quotes two instructive examples: ‘Generally, in their marriage, they got on. “Fine, not great, but grand”, she repeatedly summed up the four years of their relationship’ (Nell McCafferty, Sunday Tribune, 1996); ‘Happiness is not a condition that a normal Irish person ever recognises. Being “grand” is the most we aspire to’ (Frank McNally, Irish Times, 2007).
If you’re Irish, or an Irish English speaker, this use of grand is probably an intrinsic feature of your dialect. If you’re not, and you hear it used but are uncertain how it’s intended, my advice is to not worry. It’ll be grand.
#adjectives #dialect #grand #grandStretch #HibernoEnglish #Ireland #IrishEnglish #language #pragmatics #semantics #usage #words
