“The word ‘doomscrolling’ is a gerund. Gerunds are verbs ending in ‘-ing’, but they act as nouns in a sentence. They can ...

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

This is the essence of the noun doctrine. Abstractions are not chosen by accident, they are chosen because they cannot yield.

Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.