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Phrasal verbs represent a practically limitless group of verbs that can be combined with short adverbs or prepositions to produce new meanings. Here are some examples: Phrasal verbs are ubiquitous in ...
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 ...
In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...
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More subject-verb agreement quandaries

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...
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Intransitive and transitive verbs

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions.For instance, perhaps ...
Money is what we spend when we want to buy something. There are some words that we often use together. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that we often use with the noun 'money' ...