Ned in Albany had a question about the phrase, used in this column, “that works out great.” He asked, “Isn’t ‘great’ an adjective and what’s it modifying here? Shouldn’t it be ‘well’ in uncorrupted ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Adjectives have always been out there, mobs of them pressing on the outside walls, their faces against 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.” ...