Stative verbs in English
Many Nigerians are familiar with the definition of a verb as “an action word or a doing word”. This correct...
Many Nigerians are familiar with the definition of a verb as “an action word or a doing word”. This correct...
The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), on Wednesday, said that 58,569 candidates, representing 69.60 percent of the total...
Verbs are absolutely crucial lexical items in language. They convey the action, process or state that is proposed in a...
One of the attributes of language is open-endedness. Human beings can generate unlimited utterances through the limited rules that guide...
In grammar, modifiers are words that limit or intensify the meanings of other words. When humans write or speak, there...
Tense is one of the verbal systems that largely control and affect meaningful expressions in English. Different tense forms perform...
Determiners are often confused as adjectives by many speakers of English. While adjectives are words that describe, such as intelligent,...
In this treatise, I describe as unconventional nouns those whose plural markers do not generate their plural forms. For such...
The English language is one of the linguistically rich languages in the world, and its expansive vocabulary is pieced together...
Every field of life or area of specialisation deploys certain technical words to explain its accompanying technicalities. These words are...