This article profiles and explains the words, phrases, rules, exceptions, and devices that define the English language in its modern form.

First, a quick correction: both expressions should be hyphenated. So, the question should be: “A well-lighted room or well-lit room?” The reason is that when you generate an adjective by joining two ...

The goal of this package is to provide a simple, idiomatic and elegant way of defining parsers in Go. Participle's method of defining grammars should be familiar to any Go programmer who has used the ...

While I was biking last summer, I fell and hurt my knee. (While) biking last summer, I fell and hurt my knee. After we had pitched the tent, we ate dinner. After pitching the tent, we ate dinner.

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READING THIS sentence, it may occur to you that something is slightly awry with it. Or you may not notice anything wrong at all. The first three words are a “dangling modifier”. This writing fault has ...

The choice of appropriate forms of verbs is a problematic aspect of English usage among numerous non-native speakers. Verbs exist in three main forms, namely: present (sing), past (sang) and ...