As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...

Conjugation is a very long word, isn't it? In grammar, when you conjugate a verb, it just means that you change the verb in order for a sentence to make sense. Correctly conjugated verbs communicate ...

One of my Twitter crushes, Whitney Johnson, once posted a question from a conference asking, "What verb makes you happiest? How do you conjugate this verb for as long as possible?" It was a ...

One of the coolest things about the English language is how flexible it is. Verbs can be used as nouns. Adjectives can pinch hit for adverbs. Prepositions can fill in for conjunctions. Nouns can be ...