Kinds, sorts, types and even varieties can all be used interchangeably, (although varieties may be used more in more scientific sorts of contexts, e.g. varieties of tomato) The first three are ...

Adjectives can describe all kinds of important characteristics of nouns. For example, whether the concrete seems ‘dry’ or ‘wet’. [Aargh!] Hmm, this is a ‘sticky’ situation.

You've learned there are two kinds of adjectives in Japanese, I-adjectives and NA-adjectives. I-adjectives end with the syllable I, such as YASUI "inexpensive." NA-adjectives take NA after them ...

In Lesson 13, we said we have two kinds of adjectives in Japanese. One kind is called I-adjectives. They end with I, like OMOSHIROI (interesting) and ISOGASHII (busy). The other kind is NA adjectives.

"Those are the kinds of things that you sign up for as ... "I don't know that I have any other adjectives to describe what he's meant to us," Tang said. "He's just been an incredible human being ...