Category: English Editing

Centuries ago, in ancient Greece, the philosopher Zeno lectured on a topic that still piques the human mind, to wit:…

Determiners are small words used before nouns to tell you which one, or how many, or whose, and so on.…

We can hardly close our book on the words suggested by ingenuous without looking at the other side of the…

Adjectives go with or ‘qualify’ or ‘modify’ nouns, and sometimes pronouns. They are often used to describe the thing that…

Credo, to believe, is the origin of four other useful English words. 1.Credo – personal belief, code of ethics; the…

The Greek syn-, like the Latin com-, means ‘together’. Like many initial combining forms and prefixes, it may change slightly…

Latin vita, life, is the origins of: 1.Vital – essential to life; of crucial importance – a vital matter; also…

People tend to think that un- is solely a negative prefix. It is, of course, often used as such. And…