No matter how long you’ve been speaking English, no matter how hard you’ve worked to perfect your grammar, some past tense verbs can stump you. For example, the day after you decide to grin and bear ...

Explore the evolutionary dynamics of language through verb changes seen from Old English to modern times. Discover the future of irregular verbs. This article is reposted from the old Wordpress ...

The perfect tense is used to say what you did or what you have done in the past. To form the perfect tense you need a subject, an auxiliary verb and a past participle. Perfect tense with 'être' in ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

Sometimes you know a word has two forms, but you 're not sure which one is appropriate to use in the situation at hand. This happens a lot with verbs, where past-tense forms can compete for acceptance ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

Use the preterite tense to talk about what has already happened or actions that have been completed. It is often used with specific time frames, eg yesterday, last year. Irregular verbs in the ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades, ...