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This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...

But is the “rule” worthy of an internet storm – or is it more of a ripple in a teacup? Well, certainly the example is a rather unlikely sentence, and not simply because whittling knives are not in ...

Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral”. The furore centres on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence, that adjectives appearing before a noun ...