Want to brush up on your descriptive writing? Learn to use adjectives, imagery, alliteration and onomatopoeia in this BBC Bitesize KS3 English guide.

In National 5 English learn how to include descriptive details which will make the characters and settings in your creative writing seem more convincing.

This is possible only when you make a conscious effort to include all the three types of descriptive words, we have just discussed, in your everyday rejoinders in written or spoken language.

In addition to descriptive phrases, I’ve included a list of headings/taglines and transitional phrases to amp up your verbiage. Read the full blog.

Welcome to the Descriptive Grammars and Typology conference Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously ...

I think we’ve lost the more colorful, descriptive and, yes, precise way of talking that our elders had. I used to laugh at Mother’s old-fashioned way of talking, but now I miss it.