“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The World Cup quarter-final game between Belgium and Japan could have fooled many. Japan exhibited some footballing ...

Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. ‘Farmer Frank drives carefully.’ ‘Carefully’ is an adverb describing ‘drives’. It tells us how Farmer Frank drives. Most adverbs end ...

Adjectives must agree with the noun in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). Make most adjectives agree with the nouns by adding 'e', 's' or 'es'. Position of adjectives in ...

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...

We will recall that by definition, a gerund is a verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun in a sentence, as singing in She loves singing, and that a gerund phrase is a gerund modified by ...