38 days ago by frootbat31

A simple tip to strengthen your verbs is to use the ‘find’ function of your computer in your document. Once you open your document, hit the Cntr+F keys. This uses the find feature, and highlights every instance of that word. Find words (known as linking verbs) like was, is, should, has, and so forth ...

39 days ago by tutor

The attribute of a subject can be an article, an adjective, a noun in the possessive case or a possessive adjective. Study the following sentences. Children play football. The children play football. (Here the article the is used to modify the subject children.) Our children play football. (Here the ...

41 days ago by Chatter Master

I was going to say I can’t resolute as a play on I’m not making resolutions. But then I looked up the definition to make sure the word play I wanted to do would work. And sadly for the blog, I can resolute. Fortunately for me though, I can resolute. And double sadly for my English major friends, tea ...

42 days ago by yotrip

Image by M0les via Flickr Now is the time to unlock your POTENTIAL for becoming better potential ADJECTIVE 1. possible but as yet not actual: having a latent possibility or likelihood of occurring, or of doing or becoming something “posed a potential danger” “a potential investor” 2. expressing poss ...

43 days ago by meonomous

of all the new words to enter the language, and I am open to language morphing and changing as that whats keeps it rich and vital..... but sometimes there are some words that just shouldn't be... that simply don't work for one reason or another.. mainly because they just sound stupid.... and it is " ...

47 days ago by RAR

Subimos otro tema más relacionado con la gramática, ante la perspectiva de que habrá oposiciones en Andalucía y País Vasco, dan más ganas de estudiar. Os recomendamos este tema para estudiar porque es corto, sencillo, pero fundamental en la expresión escrita y oral de nuestros futuros alumnos. UNIT ...

47 days ago by Ash Krafton | @ashkrafton

When I was a kid, my mom had a vehement distaste for what she called "strong language." She loathed vulgarity and did her best to teach us to avoid using "dirty words," threatening that, if we cussed or swore or used dirty words, people would avoid us. And no kid wants to be avoided. Despite her tut ...

48 days ago by Laura

Grammatical errors get more and more common on the Yahoo! front page: Filed under: Subject-Verb Agreement, Verbs Tagged: bad grammar, grammar, grammar errors, grammar mistakes, incorrect grammar, Subject-Verb Agreement, verb, Yahoo!, Yahoo! front page

49 days ago by Shu

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month” is a quote by Harlan Miller.我希望我们能把圣旦节的精神装在罐子里，然后每个月打开一罐。wo3 xi1 wang4 wo3 men5 neng2 ba3 sheng4 dan4 jie2 de5 jing1 shen2 zhuang1 zai4 guan4 zi3 li3, ran2 hou4 mei3 ge5 yue4 da3 kai1 yi2 guan4. Wo3 （我pron ...

52 days ago by Laura

There’s not much I can say about this article from Yahoo! News‘ “The Ticket” except that a little proofreading or at least a spell-check would have saved the writer some embarrassment, like this grammatical gaffe: I guess the reporter was trying to distinguish between a divorce and a man who is divo ...