Adjectives Quote by Joseph Devlin

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means…

— John Dewey

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts…

— John Wesley Powell

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

— Gertrude Stein

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

— Michel de Montaigne

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

“Person, Place, Thing (Noun); Describes Action (Verb); Modifies Nouns (Adjective); Answers the W Questions (Adverb); Joins Words Together (Conjunction); Things We Say When We…

— Kory Stamper

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous,…

— Mary McCarthy

A word has many phrases

— Anonymous

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

— Robert Barry