Direct object pronouns replace the noun that is the object of a sentence (the thing that the verb, or action, is done to). Watch the video to find out how to use direct object pronouns in French. Or ...

See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

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 ...

Passive and active voice simply refer to the relationship of the subject to the verb. In a sentence using the active voice, the subject of the sentence (doer) performs the action described by the verb ...

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Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct object. This is why a sentence construction like the following doesn’t work: “The magician ...