Click here to listen to Alexandra Teague read this poem. That summer, she had a student who was obsessed with the order of adjectives. A soldier in the South Vietnamese army, he had been taken ...

Adjectives in English must always be used in a very precise order. And even though none of us has officially learned this rule, placeholderwe somehow all know to follow it, and that things seem very ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Royal Order of Adjectives dictates that adjectives must appear in a certain order: opinion-size-shape-age-color-origin-material-purpose. It's why My Greek Fat Big ...

It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...