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’Nerbing’: When nouns become verbs
One major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, without changing the form of the noun in any way.
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 ...
Conjugation is a very long word, isn't it? In grammar, when you conjugate a verb, it just means that you change the verb in order for a sentence to make sense. Correctly conjugated verbs communicate ...
Phrasal verbs are verbs that contain more than one word. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English ...
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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