Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and dessert (I know I am). The perfect quip at the perfect time will make you feel like ...

Word order matters. Most people don’t think about it, but there is usually a specific order adjectives must appear in. For example, “the brown old big house” just doesn’t have the right ring — “the ...

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.” ...

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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 ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...