A Quote by William Strunk, Jr.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
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