Today’s post begins a series of English grammar lessons that will present over the next few months an orderly review of the major topics important to better writing and speaking. These will coordinate with the Tuesday evening seminars, now called Tuesday Evening Grammar, so if a particular morning post addresses a topic you have been …
Tag Archives: Verbs
Verbs and the Verb
A little knowledge about something can cause a lot of unnecessary confusion, and when the subject is a complex one, as grammar certainly is, we are often impatient in being presented with yet another term making yet another, finer distinction. Not having that little bit more of knowledge, though, can mean the difference between somewhat …
The Verb Phrase
Lessons abound. I was standing by my car the other day, waiting for a friend to finish shopping. Someone parks in the space next to mine, walks toward the store, and then turns around abruptly to retrieve his pandemic mask. As he passes me again, he points to the mask and says, we’re going to …