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 ...

To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that ...

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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 ...

The Pierce County judge whom prosecutors asked to reconsider former NBA SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp’s sentence of home confinement for second-degree assault said Friday that he did not intend to give ...

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 ...

Convicted sex offender Christian B has been released from prison after a prosecutor failed to find enough evidence to charge him in the Madeleine McCann case. The German drifter, accused but not ...