Today we learn that all Korean adjectives are actually verbs... and there's a jolly lot of them. Ollie is studying Korean ...

AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

Our question this week is about a special type of verb. A verb is used to give a sentence action but this auxiliary modal verb gives expression or meaning to what you say; it's a bit like adding salt ...

Active Verbs for Discussing Ideas This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as ...

What verbs can we use with trip? To arrange a trip, you need to plan your trip – decide what to do. Then you organise your trip – make it happen. We need to arrange a trip to Scotland sometime.

People readily create and understand denominal verbs they have never heard before, as in to porch a newspaper and to Houdini one's way out of a closet. The meanings are best accounted for by a theory ...

Here, gratefully borrowed from various sources, is a list of 10 action verbs to open your mind and spark your imagination. 1. To cajole The more specific you can be with an action, the better.