Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to ...

Step 1: Identify its part of speech — noun, verb, adjective. Step 2: Check a dictionary, noting the part-of-speech designations and keeping in mind that dictionaries sometimes disagree with each ...

Sometime in the 20 th century, shit—having already long been a verb and then a noun—also became an adjective, as in He was a shit teacher or That restaurant has shit service. Exactly when ...

Don’t worry. I can help you. Wait, wait!” This was perfectly ordinary speech, and it entailed four verbs and zero nouns or adjectives. Not once did the man mention orange juice or the color of ...

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might ...

Word level grammar covers verbs and tenses, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and other parts of speech. Sentence level grammar covers the order of words in a sentence, phrases, clauses and types of ...