In this English lesson, we’ll break down what past participles are, how to form them, and how to use them correctly in sentences and tenses. JFK's niece has message for man who bought Trump-Kennedy ...

The word “circumambulate” is a verb that means to walk all the way around something. This term is often used in a ritualistic ...

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Optical illusions have long captured our imagination, but what about linguistic illusions? A linguistic illusion is a phenomenon in which your judgment or understanding of a sentence or phrase ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...

“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers. Ellen Jovin, wearing a “Grammar Is Groovy” T-shirt, is the star of ...

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’ Defining relative clauses ‘May’, ‘might’ and ‘could' Subject questions Too ...

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Examples of action verbs in sentences: Greg is kicking the ball now. The action verb is Kicking. It describes what Greg is doing. The wind blows constantly in Chicago. The action verb is Blows. It ...

I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...

Participles are verbs that can be used as adjectives, meaning they modify nouns or pronouns in a sentence. Identifying participles and what they modify is an important skill for students to have as it ...