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The 10 greatest adjectives of the 20th century
; ...ANNOUNCED in this column yesterday, I am teaming up with ATP - Adjective Trend Plotting, the people who chart the world rankings of adjectives - to organise the poll for the Adjective of the Century. "By this we mean the adjective which has most...
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PARENTING: Drop the adjectives, and live as a plain old family
; ...frequently ask if I have written books on adjective- children (e.g. adopted children) or adjective-families (e.g. blended families), which...child rearing must be customized to the adjective that is one's child or (2) the rules for...
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Living with children: Leave adjectives out of parenting
; ...frequently ask if I have written books on adjective- children (e.g. adopted children) or adjective-families (e.g. blended families), which...child rearing must be customized to the adjective that is one's child, or (2) the rules for...
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The volatile and vivacious world of the adjective `Formulaic' is a word much used by lazy TV executives - as if there wer e any other kind
; ...word `pyrrhic'. `Pyrrhic' is a really neat little adjective, but it's never going to get very far up the ratings...and what on earth is he on about? Ratings for adjectives? Top 1,000 adjective lists? Is someone mad? No, far from it. Tennis...
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The extraposition of prepositional objects of adjectives in Dutch (1).
; ...extraposition constructions that contain an adjective which combines with a prepositional...that the prepositional object of some adjectives occurs more frequently in extraposition...than the prepositional object of other adjectives. I argue that this result can only be...
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Interview: Ben Yagoda discusses extraneous adjectives
; ...Interview: Ben Yagoda discusses extraneous adjectives Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon RENEE MONTAGNE...offered this advice: If you catch an adjective, kill it. Writing teacher Ben Yagoda...University of Delaware): (Reading) The adjective--so ludic, so minatory, so twee. MONTAGNE...
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'Super,' man How did that adjective get elevated to stratospheric heights?
; ...scoff, but the chief reason that the adjective "super" has invaded our culture like...superdelegate." But the reason they hung that adjective - as opposed to making it "mega-delegate...sweaty mitts of urchins everywhere, the adjective "super" was not nearly as ubiquitous...
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A fun whodunit - A noun morphs into an adjective. Who's to blame?
; ...incentivize? And who made fun into an adjective? Reader Barry Briss is not the first...just as plausibly be read as a predicate adjective -- grammatically equivalent to That was...emotion, fun hasn't had a corresponding adjective to mean 'productive of fun,' " he writes...
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On hiring nouns as adjectives
; ...the other is the misuse of the noun/adjective. My text comes from a sentence in a 1968...been press-ganged into service as an adjective. There's no absolute rule against this...saves space by hiring nouns to work as adjectives is pursuing a false economy. The National...
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Adjectives. (Activity Page).(quiz)
; An adjective is a describing word. Circle the adjective in each sentence. 1. She wore a blue coat. 2. My cousin has blond hair. 3. The fuzzy puppy ran away. 4. His handwriting is sloppy. ANSWER 1. blue 2. blond 3. fuzzy 4. sloppy
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