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When the Past Tense Makes Us Tense

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...
I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...
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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 ...
Practise forming irregular verbs in past, present and future. Welcome back to Camp GOAT — the destination for fancy time-travelling goats and their friends. Once again, you can join the camp ...
When a student writes "I am frustrating with that class," we recognize it as an error, but the error is not one that makes the writing unintelligible. The message ...
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia.