#adjectives — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English -
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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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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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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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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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.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English #writingtips #writercommunity #language -
Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of word.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English #writingtips #writercommunity #language -
Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of word.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English #writingtips #writercommunity #language -
Word Classes - A brief explanation of the different types of word.
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife #verbs #nouns #adjectives #words #English #writingtips #writercommunity #language -
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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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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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
katineto - tiny f. cat -
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
