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Proper adjectives: the forgotten relative of proper nouns

By Susan29 August 2022Parts of Speech – AdjectivesAdjectives, Capital letters, Nouns, Place names, proper adjectives, Proper nouns

We know that there are proper nouns, and we know that we use capital letters for proper nouns. But there is another group of words in English that we capitalise, and they are called proper adjectives. Never heard of them? Don’t worry: most people haven’t. Proper adjectives are like the long-lost cousin of proper nouns,

Great green dragons: the order and types of adjectives

By Susan19 October 2020Parts of Speech – AdjectivesAdjectives, definitive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, descriptive adjectives, Determiners, distributive adjectives, evaluative adjectives, great green dragon, interrogative adjectives, its, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Forsyth, modern grammar, No, Numbers, order of adjectives, possessive adjectives, proper adjectives, quantitative adjectives, traditional grammar, types of adjectives

J.R.R. Tolkien, the professor of languages more famous for being the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of Rings, was fascinated by the idea of dragons from an early age. When he was about seven he began to compose his own story about a dragon. ‘I remember almost nothing about it except a philological

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Proper adjectives: the forgotten relative of proper nouns

Great green dragons: the order and types of adjectives