Today’s topic of discussion comes from the following passage culled from the Media Observer: Shall we ban ‘want’ in our headlines? “MPs want journalists kicked out of parliament”… “MPs want KDF at ...
In an item here last week two readers questioned the use of grinded as the past tense of grind. They cited such sentences as this: 'Team A grinded out a rushing game last night in defeating Team B." ...
English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...
Time adverbs in English include ‘tomorrow’, ‘next week’ and ‘soon’. The ending of the verb changes depending on who is doing the playing. For spielen - ‘to play’ - and lots of regular verbs you take ...