For many languages, the idea that the subject belongs up front is plain backward. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please ...
To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that ...
‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...
“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...
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How causative and factitive verbs work

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...