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 ...

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

the verb that will carry the action must be in its verb-stem form, not in the infinitive or “-ing” form. In the first sample sentence above, for instance, it is the verb-stem “work” that’s used. To ...

The word “excoriate” means to censure or criticize severely. It is a verb, and the term can also mean to damage or remove ...

But neither OpenAI nor university administrators have access to a student's chat history, according to official statements.

Democrats want to reverse a recent change that made certain groups of “lawfully present” immigrants no longer eligible for ...

The English language is a beautiful thing if you hear it spoken correctly by native English speakers. Most will use Cambridge ...

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

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Excerpted with permission from the publisher Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global,‎ Laura Spinney, published by ‎William Collins.

Pronounced "SITH-your-ism," with a "th" sound as in "smith," it's the word for any whispery rustling sound, though it's mostly associated with wind gently blowing through leaves. It's so obscure that ...

Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s ...