Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken ...

Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like 'uh' or 'uhm' mostly before nouns. Such slow-down effects are far less frequent before verbs, as researchers working together with an ...

Build sentences using noun groups. Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. Use your knowledge of adjectives to build and expand ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

A handy list of links to resources for teaching nouns Stage 1: Getting a snack. Grammar Tip: Noun phrases: à + article Nouns: Singular and plural forms A collection of animated children's tales in ...

Researchers are digging deeper into whether infants' ability to learn new words is shaped by the language being acquired. A new study cites a promising new research agenda aimed at bringing ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching nouns Stage 1: Ordering tapas. Grammar Tip: Plurals Episode 2: ¿Un amigo?: Learn to order at a café: Saying 'a, an': un, una (introduction to masculine ...

For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language. "The" ...