Pash – on the other hand – is perfect. It’s a shortening of “passion”, a term freighted with romance and heightened feelings ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

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Columnist Justice B. Hill laments how American education fosters mediocrity by rewarding participation over rigor, arguing ...

It’s time to rethink Bloom’s ladder. Learning is mastery, made observable in the ways students act, adapt, and solve problems ...

Having been a French immersion student since the fourth grade, I always thought I’d had a solid command of the language.

PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a five-year prison sentence on Thursday after he was found guilty by a Paris court of criminally conspiracy in a trial ...

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...

The family of Craig MacDonald broke down in tears inside a Toronto courtroom Wednesday, upset after a judge sentenced Abilaziz Mohamed to nine years in prison for manslaughter. Crown prosecutors had ...

Categorise verbs according to their process type. These goats like to "herd" their verbs into categories to keep them in order. Use your knowledge of doing, saying, sensing, thinking, feeling and ...

Introduction: The Hayling Test assesses the components of initiation, inhibition, cognitive flexibility and verbal speed by means of a sentence completion task. This study presents the process of ...