Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century ...

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Former Tottenham director of football Fabio Paratici has been handed a 18-month suspended jail sentence as part of a plea bargain deal. Paratici was involved in the infamous Juventus "Plusvalenza" ...

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 ...

A verb is a word used to describe an action. That’s doing something. Or, a verb can be used to describe a state. That’s feeling something. Or, a verb can be used to describe an occurrence. That’s ...

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 ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Each part has special t.-p. and separate paging. Part 1 is 1st edition, 1791; pt. 2, 4th ed., 1794 (1st edition, Lichfield, 1789) "Additional notes" to pt. 1 have separate paging (126 p.) and include ...

61 Founding, Historical, Employee and Executive Shareholders of the Company, Representing Approximately 20.1% of Voting Rights have entered into a Shareholders’ Agreement NANTES, France - September 12 ...

The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times, the site was considered one of the ...