strong, wide, broad, high, young, true, wise, free, poor, humble, short, good, proud, just, decent, prudent, vacant, brave, rain, cruel, dark, sweet, novel, save, bitter, deep, human, quick, ignorant Think in terms of suffixes like -th, -dom, -ty,

I don't know what a "vast" sentence is. Aside from that, you can find the answers to such questions in a dictionary. If you look up the word 'vast', you will find the following entry: vast  /væst, vɑst/ adjective,

Hallo! I have a question- I am looking for an overview of rules for word formation processes in English (like a sheet or sth).. with the most important pre- and suffixes to build adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs.. It shouldn't be too

Acceptable in published work and acceptable in Scrabble are very different things. True. I would assume any Scrabble dictionary is very much proper a subset of English. One wouldn't think so, judging from the comments made by passers-by on

participle. Either can be used in any of your three example sentences above. (etc., etc.) Calm down, silly; nobody's talking about your mother. Though it may not be a steadfast rule, the conjugation of "-en" verbs that I mentioned is

Seen in the wild (in another newsgroup): "I had both my primary and secondary drives die on me within in a 24 hr basis." I was wondering if that would happen: the "on a...basis" fad metastasizing to nonrepetitive contexts.

Larry G filted: Why does English formulate people from China as "Chinese"? Why not "Chinians? Why are "Americans", not "Amerese"? And, "Spanish" not ... "Francans"? What is the unwritten rule