Learn about adjectives - describing words to make things more interesting… tastier, smellier, and better looking. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons.

Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral”. The furore centres on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence, that adjectives appearing before a noun ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The World Cup quarter-final game between Belgium and Japan could have fooled many. Japan exhibited some footballing ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most ...

But is the “rule” worthy of an internet storm – or is it more of a ripple in a teacup? Well, certainly the example is a rather unlikely sentence, and not simply because whittling knives are not in ...

The World Cup quarter-final game between Belgium and Japan could have fooled many. Japan exhibited some footballing brilliance and threatened to upstage favourites Belgium. But it was not to be ...