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 ...

Gary Price reports that “Google” is now officially a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary. Google already is a verb in some other dictionaries, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is considered ...

Adobe Photoshop has become one of the indispensable tools for photo processing and illustration finishing. Although Photoshop is the name of a tool, it is sometimes used as a verb 'Photoshop' in ...

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Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them effortlessly, ...

Yahoo may need a Band-Aid or a Kleenex. Its rival has been officially ensconced in Merriam-Webster's--and the OED. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

Perhaps you have just been playing poker, euchre, or whist. Perhaps you have been thinking a lot about trumpets. Or perhaps you have merely sought a verb in the past few months that means to defeat or ...