Last week’s column examined a number of phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs, of necessity, are made up of two words; a verb and an adverb or preposition. Phrasal verbs are categorised as separable, ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

More than this, we made Google a transitive verb - "I googled it". That means I (the subject) used Google (the verb) to do something with it (the object). Pinker says the way we use words betrays the ...

The past week witnessed the frequent occurrence of the words ‘resign’ and its derivative ‘resignation’ in the print, electronic and social media, thanks to LK Advani who stunned the BJP with his ...

No matter how long you’ve been speaking English, no matter how hard you’ve worked to perfect your grammar, some past tense verbs can stump you. For example, the day after you decide to grin and bear ...