Imagine trying to speak without expressing possibility, permission,or necessity; it would be like painting without colour. That’s were the modal verb step in. These special helping verbs—can, could, ...

Great news, everyone! The Oxford English Dictionary has finally — finally — added a verb form to its definition of “clatfart.” That’s right. The noun we all love, meaning “gossip,” is now also a verb ...

I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...

This paper introduces selected concepts from a theory of linguistic structure called SPACE GRAMMAR, and employs these concepts to seek an integrated account of the form and meaning of the English ...

Sometimes in a sentence, one verb follows another. For example, 'I remember telling her about the bowling'. The first verb is 'remember', the second verb is 'tell'. In sentences like this, there are ...

The words used the most in everyday language are the ones evolving at the slowest rate, say two new studies published in Nature. In one paper, researchers at Harvard University focused on the ...