Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Nominalizations make nouns out of verbs and adjectives, sometimes to ill effect

Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Adverbs don’t modify all verbs and other lessons for the New York Times

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...
Ars Technica

Parsing a text file and discerning between nouns, adjectives and verbs

Can this be done?<BR>I'm using PHP (and I'm 100% newb) .. I basically need to know where to start. This is for a project I want to work on. PHP that writes poetry ...
BBC

Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives must agree with the noun in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). Make most adjectives agree with the nouns by adding 'e', 's' or 'es'. Position of adjectives in ...