‘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,...
Function words such as conjunctions, prepositions, determiners and pronouns do not mostly carry propositional values like content words (nouns, verbs,...
Words are the building blocks of utterances, and most central to thoughts and propositions among words are verbs. Verbs embody...
I graduated from the Department of English Language of the Ahmadu Bello University with a BA English in 1981. I...
It is essential to extend my felicitations to all readers of my column on the rare fortune of being alive...
Voice is a grammatical concept that indicates whether the subject of a sentence is performing or receiving the action of...
Phrasal verbs are lexical items that combine verbs with other word classes, such as prepositions or adverbs. Such prepositions or...
A sentence is the highest grammatical unit ahead of a clause, a phrase, a word and a morpheme, although it...
In times past, formalists or early grammarians described word classes or parts of speech with regard to forms. Considering these...
The letter, “s”, is central to the grammaticality or otherwise of many English expressions. Since languages are rule-governed, it is...