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WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some ...

A cigarette has become the subject of internet intrigue after a woman filmed it 'dancing and levitating' outside her workplace in Gateshead. The object appears to float in the air, swirling and ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a new study. Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published ...

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...

As a writer, you know proper grammar is crucial. But do you really understand the different grammatical terms and how they function in sentences? Identifying parts of speech and understanding their ...

ABSTRACT: The path event frame reveals the structure of typical motion events. 去 (qù, go) and “go”, as a pair of typical path verbs, imply clear and discernible paths in their meanings. Therefore, ...