I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...

One of the most misunderstood forms is fluid intelligence: the ability to think logically, recognize patterns, and solve ...

Learning Greek is not always easy, but it is truly fascinating. Credit: RDNE Stock project, Pexels, Public Domain The Greek language hosts an incredibly diverse and rich linguistic history, with its ...

Now that we’re all out of English class, you might be asking yourself: do I still have to follow all of those strict grammar rules? The answer is “no.” We’re splitting infinitives, running amok with ...

This is a draft on English conspiracy theories. Before we get to participle constructions, I would like to address something that briefly caught my attention the time before last. Active voice: I made ...

We sure love contractions, don’t we? Whether we’re talking or writing, we’ll do almost anything to get our point across faster. Just think about it: don’t, can’t, I’m, he’ll—they all follow a pretty ...

Learn active and passive voice with easy rules, examples, and step-by-step explanations. Practise 50+ exercises on active to passive voice converison with answers. Best for students and beginners.

In the C1 level you must be able to combine verb chains (V+V) in the correct way. To be able to do so it is important to remember that depending on the first verb, the second one will be used in one ...

might, may, could, can, should appear, suggest, indicate, tend to+ verb stem, seem to + verb stem somewhat, perhaps, possibly, probably, generally, typically ...