When a verb is the subject of a sentence, it needs to be in the -ing form. Often, the subject is the first word in a sentence ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...

My day was as empty as a human resources manager’s imagination, so I was heading for a pint or two of Smithwick’s with my barfly associates, the Afternoon Travelers, when an anomaly loomed on the ...

Language Acquisition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2007), pp. 75-113 (39 pages) This article focuses on the meaning of nonfinite clauses ("root infinitives") in Dutch and English child language. I present ...

Spoken English is following the lead taken by Star Trek to boldly go in search of new grammatical rules. A vast collection of British conversations containing 11.5 million words has uncovered an ...

It’s easy to get confused about proper grammar because there’s so many different rules. Some of the rules you’ve probably heard, however, may not necessarily be true, and this video is here to clear ...