It’s a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. “Every day we help people get back to their everyday,” proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does ...

Narrator: Looks like you've caught more than you expected there. Fisherman: Help! There's a beast. I'm trapped on the lake. My boat is stuck. Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and ...

In a previous discussion, we attempted to understand MORPHEMES and their relevance to sentence construction. Today we examine PHRASES and CLAUSES as salient elements of a SENTENCE. STRUCTURAL and ...

In a sentence, the verb describes the main action or state of the subject. Different types of verbs have different functions: A sentence is built up from words. Sometimes words are grouped together in ...

The subject (the dog) and predicate(ran) makes it a complete sentence. The cute, brown dog ran. The phrase cute, brown dog plays the role of a noun in the sentence and it is a noun phrase. The cute ...

This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as ...