‘Hit’ is an action – you hit a ball with a bat in baseball, for example. There are many phrases with ‘hit’ in English. Learn ...

This paper outlines three general tendencies in semantic change, and focuses on the third: meanings tend to become increasingly situated in the speaker's subjective belief state or attitude toward the ...

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 ...

When I was an English composition teacher, I used to inflict upon my unhappy students a revision technique I called “instant style.” I made them go over their already finished papers and make seven ...