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In this exercise, you'll see input verbs and model verbs. If you choose ring as your model verb, and then bring as your input verb, bring will conjugate the way that ring normally does. (You will get ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Thomas Wier, assistant professor of linguistics at the Free University of Tbilisi: Short Answer: Yes, but not in English. What do we mean by ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades, ...

Some of us probably can still recall that there are three general moods of verbs in English, mood being that aspect of the verb that expresses the state of mind or attitude of the speaker toward what ...

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken ...

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