WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...

Ohio State is your 2024 college football national champion after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 34-23, on Monday night. The Buckeyes' path to their first championship since the inaugural ...

Grade school English teachers do their best to send you off into the world with at least a cursory understanding of how language works. Maybe you can tell your dependent clauses from your independent ...

Whether you’re a seasoned writer or need a quick refresher on the parts of speech, knowledge of how to correctly use verbs is always helpful. These action words can stand alone, link parts of sentence ...

At the heart of language are verbs: the action words that make sentences come alive. Even if you haven’t heard of the phrase “transitive verb,” you’ve seen it in action before. It’s one of the most ...

“The ship floundered in the swells off of the Outer Banks for a while before breaking apart.” “When a cargo ship floundered on the shore, it was often considered providence.” When I searched Google ...

Warren Buffett once challenged Bill Gates to an unusual game of dice. Buffett placed four dice on the table and explained the rules. They would each pick a die, roll it a bunch of times, and whoever ...