Learn more about constructing sentences using nouns in French. In French, unlike in English, most adjectives come after the noun. Learn more about constructing sentences containing adjectives.

In each item below, the incomplete words require the same word root to form a family of words that differ according to their part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). For each family of words, ...

The difference between these two parts of speech is simple: Adjectives describe nouns, whereas adverbs typically describe adjectives and verbs. An adverb will often end in "ly" — curiously ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Nominalizations are nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or verbs (action words). For example, ...

A root has no lexical meaning and the semantic range of the root is vague if there is any at all. A stem may contain derivational affixes. Consider the following nouns, adjectives and verbs in English ...

A part of speech is a way of categorising words by their grammatical function. In English there are eight parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, pronoun and ...

Those 10 people who read last week’s column may remember that I promised more vocabulary study, but like a lot of people I ...

Compiled by the folks at Raconteur, the list includes nouns, adjectives and verbs ranging from the reasonably well-known “flabbergast”, to more obscure words, including “quincunx ...