A verb is usually defined as a word or combination of words that either expresses an action or says something about the existence or condition of a noun or pronoun. This article will tease out ...

If an action concerns only one person or thing, you mention only the person or thing that carries out the action (the subject) and the action itself (the verb). Verbs which describe such actions are ...

Listen to Prof Roly Sussex talk about how some verbs are actually transitive, and why. ABC Education brings you high-quality educational content to use at home and in the classroom. All our resources ...

We often see the frequent occurrence of the word resign and its derivative in the print, electronic and social media thanks to politicians who hand in resignation letters. Look at these news headlines ...

A reader took issue with the title of my column two weeks ago. Inter alia, he wrote; “It is incorrect to say ‘Beware of’ . The correct usage is either “Be aware of” or just ‘Beware’. In response, I ...

Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute The Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute is the annual research periodical being brought out by the ...

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 21, No. 3 (August 2012), pp. 219-266 (48 pages) Mandarin Chinese has two strategies for forming comparatives of superiority: one in which the standard of ...