Social media posts, speeches, advertising slogans and leaflets... Why do some of them inspire us to act while we pass others ...

Learning English grammar can feel overwhelming, but certain mistakes appear repeatedly amongst new speakers. These errors ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

Here’s an example of a transitive verb sentence: Byron launched the cat into orbit. Here, “launched” is a transitive verb. Not only is it an active verb, but it also allows for at least one ...

The sentence relies on a few tricks. The first is that “buffalo” is a verb as well as a noun and the name of a place. To buffalo someone is to confuse or fluster a person.

Swedish often has the same word order as English, but not always. Photo: Staffan Löwstedt/SvD/TT. Knowing where to put the verb in Swedish sentences is a common issue for Swedish learners, so don’t ...