Category: English Editing

A verb that does not form its Past tense and Past participle in a regular way. Regular verbs work like…

When a text includes a direct quotation from another book, or from what someone has said, quotation marks are used…

In handwritten documents and in some printed texts, they are used for the titles of books, pictures, plays, films, and…

Punctuation marks used to separate a group of words from the rest of the text. They can be single: ‘and’…

A verb that does not have to be followed by an Object. For example: Groan: The man on the terrace…

An adverb that is used to modify an adjective. Intensifiers show how much of a quality something has. For example:…

Most nouns and verbs and many adjectives change their form according to how they are used in a sentence. This…

A form of the verb. In the verb phrase the infinitive has two forms:  The verb stem: This form…