Origins – The flesh and All.
Carnivorous combines carnis, flesh, and voro, to devour. A carnivorous animal, or carnivore, is one whose main diet is meat.…
Category: English Editing
Putting Nouns into the Plural – Words ending in -F or -FE.
Some of these words change their ending to -ves in the plural, but some end simply in -s. A few…
Origins – Soundings.
Cacophony is itself a harsh-sounding word – and is the only one that exactly describes the unmusical, grating, ear-offending noises…
Grammar – A Batch of Papers Has/Have Arrived.
Generally, a subject consisting of a singular noun plus an of-phrase takes a singular verb: A flock of sheep was…
Origins – Doing and Feeling.
If you watch a furious athletic event, and you get tired, though the athletes expend all the energy – that’s…
Grammar – What is a Sentence?
So much, then, for the individual parts of speech. In isolation they mean little. Only when words form part of…
Origins – Zeno and the front porch
Centuries ago, in ancient Greece, the philosopher Zeno lectured on a topic that still piques the human mind, to wit:…
Grammar – What is Determiner?
Determiners are small words used before nouns to tell you which one, or how many, or whose, and so on.…