Quotes About Adjectives

She's never met an adjective or adverb she didn't like.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

What a repugnant, abhorrent, contemptible, deceitful, shifty, treacherous, insidious sonofabitch! She has never before been so full of adjectives.

American Sign Language—ASL—is a language unto itself, with its own syntax and grammar. Adjectives follow nouns, as in Romance languages.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I'm suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to overcome me, to finesse me like a bridge player. Or to seduce me.

It was the time when well-bred people observed the rule of affability and what was called the rule of the three adjectives.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Words are powerful, so add visually descriptive adjectives to the story.

Words are powerful, so add visually descriptive adjectives to the story. For example, if you're talking about a fruit you had for lunch, you could say, "Today I had the most delicious strawberries. As I bit into one, I could feel the juices squirting out," or

I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

building a tower of description that was in constant danger of toppling over as more and more clauses were thrown on to it, adjectives and adverbs, bounteous, haltingly, found in pockets and pitched on, similes not spared, prepositions dangling and otherwise, metaphors

To assess purpose, three adjectives were added—focused, engaged, competent/able—as well as three statements: "I feel the activities in this episode . . .": were worthwhile and meaningful; were useful to other people; helped me achieve important goals. The response scale for all questions ranged from 0 (not at all) to 6 (very strongly).