To Describe Taste

Bitter Lemon-flavored Spicy

Bland Minty Sweet

Delicious Pickled Tangy

Fruity Salty Tasty

Gingery Sour Yummy

To Describe Touch
Boiling Fluffy Sharp

Breezy Freezing Silky

Bumpy Fuzzy Slick

Chilly Greasy Slimy

Cold Hard Slippery

Cool Hot Smooth

Cuddly Icy Soft

Damp Loose Solid

Dirty Melted Sticky

Dry Painful Tender

Dusty Prickly Tight

Encrusted Rough Uneven

Filthy Shaggy Warm

Flaky Shaky Wet

To Describe Sound
Blaring Melodic Screeching

Deafening Moaning Shrill

Faint Muffled Silent

Hoarse Mute Soft

High-pitched Noisy Squealing

Hissing Purring Squeaking

Hushed Quiet Thundering

Husky Raspy Voiceless

Loud Resonant Whispering

To Describe Color
Azure Gray Pinkish

Black Green Purple

Blue Indigo Red

Bright Lavender Rosy

Brown Light Scarlet

Crimson Magenta Silver

Dark Multicolored Turquoise

Drab Mustard Violet

Dull Orange White

Gold Pink Yellow

To Describe Size
Abundant Jumbo Puny

Big-boned Large Scrawny

Chubby Little Short

Fat Long Small

Giant Majestic Tall

Gigantic Mammoth Teeny

Great Massive Thin

Huge Miniature Tiny

Immense Petite Vast

To Describe Shape
Blobby Distorted Rotund

Broad Flat Round

Chubby Fluffy Skinny

Circular Globular Square

Crooked Hollow Steep

Curved Low Straight

Cylindrical Narrow Triangular

Deep Oval Wide

To Describe Time
Annual Futuristic Rapid

Brief Historical Regular

Daily Irregular Short

Early Late Slow

Eternal Long Speed

Fast Modern Speedy

First Old Swift

Fleet Old-fashioned Waiting

Future Quick Young

To Describe an Amount
All Heavy One

Ample Hundreds Paltry

Astronomical Large Plentiful

Bountiful Light Profuse

Considerable Limited Several

Copious Little Sizable

Countless Many Some

Each Measly Sparse

Enough Mere Substantial

Every Multiple Teeming

Few Myriad Ten

Full Numerous Very

To Describe an Emotion
Abrasive Embarrassed Grumpy

Abrupt Energetic Kind

Afraid Enraged Lazy

Agreeable Enthusiastic Lively

Aggressive Envious Lonely

Amiable Evil Lucky

Amused Excited Mad

Angry Exhausted Manic

Annoyed Exuberant Mysterious

Ashamed Fair Nervous

Bad Faithful Obedient

Bitter Fantastic Obnoxious

Bewildered Fierce Outrageous

Boring Fine Panicky

Brave Foolish Perfect

Callous Frantic Persuasive

Calm Friendly Pleasant

Calming Frightened Proud

Charming Funny Quirky

Cheerful Furious Relieved

Combative Gentle Repulsive

Comfortable Glib Rundown

Defeated Glorious Sad

Confused Good Scary

Cooperative Grateful Selfish

Courageous Grieving Silly

Cowardly Gusty Splendid

Crabby Gutless Successful

Creepy Happy Tedious

Cross Healthy Tense

Cruel Heinous Terrible

Dangerous Helpless Thankful

Defeated Hilarious Thoughtful

Defiant Hungry Thoughtless

Delightful Hurt Tired

Depressed Hysterical Troubled

Determined Immoral Upset

Disgusted Impassioned Weak

Disturbed Indignant Weary

Eager Irate Wicked

Elated Itchy Worried

Embarrassed Jealous Zany

Enchanting Jolly Zealous

To Describe a Person or Personality

Aggressive Famous Restless

Agoraphobic Fearless Rich

Ambidextrous Fertile Righteous

Ambitious Fragile Ritzy

Amoral Frank Romantic

Angelic Functional Rustic

Brainy Gabby Ruthless

Breathless Generous Sassy

Busy Gifted Secretive

Calm Helpful Sedate

Capable Hesitant Shy

Careless Innocent Sleepy

Cautious Inquisitive Somber

Cheerful Insane Stingy

Clever Jaunty Stupid

Common Juicy Super

Complete Macho Swanky

Concerned Manly Tame

Crazy Modern Tawdry

Curious Mushy Terrific

Dead Naughty Testy

Deep Odd Uninterested

Delightful Old Vague

Determined Open Verdant

Different Outstanding Vivacious

Diligent Perky Wacky

Energetic Poor Wandering

Erratic Powerful Wild

Evil Puzzled Womanly

Exuberant Real Wrong

To Describe Appearance
Ablaze Distinct Quirky

Adorable Drab Ruddy

Alluring Dull Shiny

Attractive Elegant Skinny

Average Embarrassed Sloppy

Awkward Fancy Smiling

Balanced Fat Sparkling

Beautiful Filthy Spotless

Blonde Glamorous Strange

Bloody Gleaming Tacky

Blushing Glossy Tall

Bright Graceful Thin

Clean Grotesque Ugly

Clear Handsome Unattractive

Cloudy Homely Unbecoming

Clumsy Interior Uncovered

Colorful Lovely Unsightly

Confident Magnificent Unusual

Cracked Murky Watery

Crooked Old-fashioned Weird

Crushed Plain Wild

Curly Poised Wiry

Cute Pretty Wooden

Debonair Puffy Worried

Dirty Quaint Zaftig

To Describe Situations
Accidental Doubtful Main

Achievable Elementary Minor

Advantageous Finger-printed Nasty

Alcoholic Groundless Nutritious

Credible Inventive Tricky

Creepy Jazzy Wholesale

Cumbersome Juvenile Hard Obsolete

Disastrous Legal Harmful Optimal

Dismissive Logical High Organic

Honest Premium

Horrible Quizzical

Illegal Rainy

Illegible Redundant

Imperfect Remarkable

Broken Animated Simple

 Careful Aquatic Tangible

Aromatic

Aspiring

Bad

Bawdy

Biographical

Bizarre

Preposition Meaning Example

at a point within an
in The pen is in the drawer.
area
in front of directly before The child ran out in front of the bus.
inside on the inner part of The bird is inside the cage.
into enter a closed space He went into the shop.

of 5220 (preposition)
with 1062 (preposition)
at 624 (preposition)
from 622 (preposition)
into 301 (preposition)
during 103 (preposition)
including 58 (preposition)
until 54 (preposition)
against 46 (preposition)
among 37 (preposition)
throughout 27 (preposition)
despite 17 (preposition)
towards 16 (preposition)
upon 15 (preposition)
concerning 3 (preposition)
to 4951 (preposition, adverb)
in 2822 (preposition, adverb)
for 1752 (preposition,
 conjunction)
(preposition, adverb,
on 1087
adjective)
by 706 (preposition, adverb)
(preposition, adverb,
about 451
adjective)
(preposition, verb,
like 324
conjunction)
(preposition, adverb,
through 235
adjective)
(preposition, adjective,
over 170
noun)
(preposition, adverb,
before 141
conjunction)
between 137 (preposition, adverb)
(preposition, adjective,
after 110
adverb)
(preposition, adverb,
since 107
conjunction)
(preposition, adverb,
without 89
conjunction)
(preposition, adverb,
under 70
adjective)
within 46 (preposition, adverb)
along 45 (preposition, adverb)
(preposition, noun,
following 39
adjective)
(preposition, adverb,
across 36
adjective)
(preposition, adverb,
behind 22
adjective)
beyond 20 (preposition, noun)
(preposition, adjective,
plus 14
noun)
(preposition,
except 6
conjunction, idiom)
(conjunction,
but 626
preposition, adverb)
(adverb, preposition,
up 296
adjective)
(adverb, preposition,
out 294
adjective)
around 101 (adverb, preposition)
 (adverb, preposition,
down 94
adjective)
(adverb, preposition,
off 74
adjective)
(adverb, preposition,
above 40
adjective)
(adverb, preposition,
near 13
adjective)

Coordinating conjunctions are the most popular category of conjunctions. Simply put, they
bring ideas together. They can join words, phrases, and clauses.

Coordinating Conjunctions
The English language has seven coordinating conjunctions, and they're easy to remember if
you can just remember the acronym FANBOYS:
 For - Explains reason or purpose (just like "because")
I go to the park every Sunday, for I long to see his face.
 And - Adds one thing to another
I like to read, and I write faithfully in my journal every night.
 Nor - Used to present an alternative negative idea to an already stated negative idea
I neither love nor hate to watch TV.
 But - Shows contrast
Television is a wonderful escape, but it interferes with my writing.
 Or - Presents an alternative or a choice
Would you rather read a book or watch a good TV show?
 Yet - Introduces a contrasting idea that follows the preceding idea logically (similar to "but")
I always take a book to the beach, yet I never seem to turn a single page.
 So - Indicates effect, result or consequence
I like to read, so my grammar is always on-point.

What Is A Subordinating Conjunction?

A subordinating conjunction is a word that connects an independent clause to a dependent
clause. An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence. In other words, it does not
need any additional information to operate as a sentence. The sentence "The student failed
the test" is an example of an independent clause.
A dependent clause adds extra information to the main clause. These clauses cannot stand
by themselves and their meaning is dependent on the independent clause. They are
not complete sentences. For example, "because she didn't study" is not a complete
sentence.
However, combine the two clauses, and we have "The student failed the test because she
didn't study." A complete idea has been expressed and enough information has been
presented to fully explain the thought. What joined the two clauses? The word "because."
And there we have our first subordinating conjunction.

Using Subordinating Conjunctions

In English, there are a lot of subordinating conjunctions. Let's take a look at the most
common ones, along with a few examples from some classic songs:
 After - "Your heart will break like mine, and you'll want only me after you've gone" (Ella
Fitzgerald)
 Although - "Although I've been here before, he's just too hard to ignore" (Amy Winehouse)
 As - "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize
there's nothing left" (Coolio)
 As long as - "I don't care who you are, where you're from or what you did as long asyou love
me" (Backstreet Boys)
 Because - "I'm everything I am because you loved me" (Celine Dion)
 Before - "Just call me angel of the morning, angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me,
baby" (Juice Newton)
 Even if - "Even if the sky is falling down, you'll be my only" (Jay Sean)
 If - "If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me" (Chicago)
 Once - "Once in a blue moon, something good comes along." (Van Morrison)
 Now that - "Baby, now that I've found you, I won't let you go" (Tony Macaulay/John
MacLeod)
 Since - "I guess I'll never be the same since I fell for you" (B.B. King)
 Though - "Walk on through the rain though your dreams be tossed and blown" (Rodgers and
Hammerstein)
 Unless - "We're never going to survive unless we get a little crazy" (Seal)
 Until - "I'll keep on dreaming until my dreams come true." (Charlie Louvin)
 When - "When I see you smile, I can face the world" (Bad English)
 Where - "There's a light burning bright, showing me the way, but I know where I've been"
(Scott Wittman)
 While - "I look at the world, and I notice it's turning while my guitar gently weeps" (The
Beatles)
You'll notice that when a dependent clause precedes an independent clause, th

Correlative conjunctions are sort of like tag-team conjunctions. They come in pairs, and you have to
use both of them in different places in a sentence to make them work. They get their name from the
fact that they work together (co-) and relate one sentence element to another. Correlative
conjunctions include pairs such as "both/and," "either/or," "neither/nor," "not/but" and "not only/but
also." For example:
 either/or - I want either the cheesecake or the chocolate cake.
 both/and - We'll have both the cheesecake and the chocolate cake.
 whether/or - I didn't know whether you'd want the cheesecake or the chocolate cake, so I got
both.
 neither/nor - Oh, you want neither the cheesecake nor the chocolate cake? No problem.
 not only/but also - I'll eat them both - not only the cheesecake but also the chocolate cake.
 not/but - I see you're in the mood not for desserts but appetizers. I'll help you with those, too.
Here are some more useful pairs of correlative conjunctions:
 as/as - Bowling isn't as fun as skeet shooting.
 such/that - Such was the nature of their volatile relationship that they never would have made it
even if they'd wanted to.
 scarcely/when - I had scarcely walked in the door when I got an urgent call and had to run right
back out again.
 as many/as - There are as many curtains as there are windows.
 no sooner/than - I'd no sooner lie to you than strangle a puppy.
 rather/than - She'd rather play the drums than sing.