Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

Summertime is here, and with it endless hours of sitting in the shade regretting all the years we spent baking in the sun. Growing up in central Florida, I was part of a community of ...

“Fowler’s” final scenario applies just to British speakers and distinguishes between transitive and intransitive forms of “compare.” Remember that transitive verbs take direct objects, “I compare ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...