Linguistics
Rules for Italicization in Written EnglishSimilar to punctuation, italicization is a convention of writing that helps writers and readers more easily read and understand writing. There...
June 1, 2013- Punctuation Rules for Ellipses and Braces in Written English
Punctuation is a convention of writing that helps writers and readers more clearly understand written language. There are four rules for...
May 31, 2013 - The Present Perfect of English Verbs
All conjugated verbs in English express grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood. Tense is the grammaticalized expression of...
May 30, 2013 - Punctuation Rules for Brackets in Written English
Punctuation is a written convention that makes reading and writing clearer by ensuring the clarity of written language. There are five...
May 29, 2013 - Punctuation Rules for Slashes in Written English
As a convention of writing, punctuation helps writers and readers more clearly understand written language. There are six rules for using...
May 28, 2013 - The English Conjunction System: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating Conjunctions
Conjunctions are traditionally defined as words that link together other words, phrases, and clauses. The English language contains three grammatical forms...
May 26, 2013 - English Verbs: Copular, Intransitive, Transitive, Ditransitive, and Ambitransitive
Verbs are traditionally defined as “action or state of being words.” In the English language, main or principal verbs may be...
May 25, 2013 - Prepositions and the Vampires of ‘The Twilight Saga’: Beyond the Prescriptive
Although the joke “prepositions are not words to end sentences with” comments on a prescriptive grammar proscription for prepositions, prepositions fulfill...
May 24, 2013 - English Expressions: Weather Idioms and Sayings in English
Expressions like idioms and proverbs are sayings whose meanings are figurative rather than literal. Such expressions are often peculiar to a...
May 23, 2013 - The Simple Past of English Verbs
All English verbs that are conjugated express a combination of grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood. Tense is...
May 22, 2013 - Simple Past Tense of Irregular English Verbs
The simple past tense is a verb form that expresses discrete, completed, non-continuous actions or states that occurred in the past....
May 21, 2013 - Simple Past Tense of Regular English Verbs
The simple past tense describes completed actions, describes past habits and routines, states past facts and truths, and expresses past thoughts...
May 20, 2013 - Types of Nouns: Common, Proper, Collective, Compound, Count, and Noncount
Traditional grammars define nouns as “words that name people, places, things, and ideas.” Prototypical nouns express grammatical number, singular and plural,...
May 19, 2013 - Punctuation Rules for Parentheses in Written English
Punctuation marks are a written convention that make reading and writing clearer by ensuring the clarity of written language. There are...
May 18, 2013 - Punctuation Rules for Dashes in Written English
Punctuation marks are a written convention that make reading and writing more understandable for readers and writers by ensuring the clarity...
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