Sometime in the 20 th century, shit—having already long been a verb and then a noun—also became an adjective, as in He was a shit teacher or That restaurant has shit service. Exactly when ...

Step 1: Identify its part of speech — noun, verb, adjective. Step 2: Check a dictionary, noting the part-of-speech designations and keeping in mind that dictionaries sometimes disagree with each ...

Bat When used as a noun, a bat could be ... up to bat during a baseball game. Compact When used as an adjective, "compact" means small, but when used as a verb, it means to make something smaller.

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might ...

When the exact word he wanted wasn’t available, he would quite often combine verbs and nouns to create new adjectives. The corridor was clean and bright. The adjectives above can be referred to ...

There are far fewer pronouns in English than verbs, fewer verbs than adjectives, and fewer adjectives than nouns. That means a password composed of “pronoun-verb-adjective-noun,” such as ...