Taller or more taller: More on adjectives
The need to always describe persons, places, things and other phenomena has made adjectives an important word class in language studies. In the semiotics of grammar, nouns are buildings…
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‘We hugged ourselves’ or ‘We hugged one another’: more on pronouns
Function words such as conjunctions, prepositions, determiners and pronouns do not mostly carry propositional values like content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs).…
Hanged or Hung: Dealing with forms of verbs
Words are the building blocks of utterances, and most central to thoughts and propositions among words are verbs. Verbs embody the crux of expressions, so a wrong choice of verb can make a…
How was your night?
I graduated from the Department of English Language of the Ahmadu Bello University with a BA English in 1981. I carry that degree with pride as I was taught by some of the finest lecturers…
My end-of-year grammar note
It is essential to extend my felicitations to all readers of my column on the rare fortune of being alive on the last day of 2021. Let me remind you that when used to wish someone or a…