Formal models of syntax typically accord the structural position external to the verb's domain a privileged status in the overall syntactic makeup of a language, either by assuming that external ...

This week's on-air puzzle has a familiar three-word phrase in which the first word is a verb, the second word is "the" and the third word is a noun. I'll give you the phrase, but with an anagram of ...

A FOLLOWER of my Facebook page for Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Maria Fernandez, told me in a post a few weeks ago that she finds phrasal verbs deceiving: “I get confused trying to distinguish them ...

Another useful impersonal verb expression, to say it is necessary to do something, is il faut. Higher Tier only - The impersonal verb phrase il manque is used to say something is missing. Some verbs ...

You use the perfect tense when, in English, you would say that something has happened. So, if you wanted to say: ‘You have been to the hairdresser,' 'she has eaten all the biscuits’ or anything else ...

A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

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 ...