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 ...

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 ...

Scary is an adjective. An adjective tells you more about a noun or pronoun. An adjective is a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place). It was a terrible book. The word ...