Man is a time-bound being. I once had a history professor who liked to bellow that statement when his students complained about being required to know exact dates on exams. He argued that knowing the […]
Tag: Verbs
If Wishes Were Horses: Conditionals
How do we write about the What Ifs? How do we talk about conditions and consequences?
Antidisestablishmentarianism: The Perils of Nominalization
We’ve seen how changing nouns and adjectives into verbs can give us unexpected, modern and punchy writing, so what happens when we do the opposite and make nouns out of verbs and adjectives? Unfortunately, we […]
Let’s Logic this Language: Verbing
All of us have language pet peeves. Some people hate double negatives, others go bonkers when they hear someone end a sentence with a preposition, many feel slang is a sign of end times, etc. […]
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