FOR my dissertation for a PhD in applied linguistics, I wrote a 300-page manuscript all about verbs in Philippine English. One might imagine I have an unusual obsession with verbs — and, yes, I had.

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It’s never too late to become good at something new — especially if it’s one of the easiest languages to learn on your own. Take Arieh Smith, for example. Better known as Xiaoma, he is a New Yorker ...

Tense is the form of a verb which tells you when something happened. Look at the verb ‘talk’ for example. Technically, there are only two grammatical tenses in English: present and past. To talk about ...

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to use the ...

A Senate hearing got tense and quiet after Illinois father Joe Abraham confronted retiring Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for not acknowledging his daughter, Katie, who was killed by an illegal immigrant ...