image: Nouns and verbs are learned in different parts of the brain. view more Credit: Mestres-Misse et al. Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain ...

PIC-LITS is a free interactive literacy website that teaches writing by allowing users to easily combine words and pictures. With this engaging blend of the visual and the verbal, PIC-LITS allows ...

In “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems,” Campbell McGrath celebrates chain restaurants, rock music and the joyful raucous stupidity of pop culture.

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might ...

For younger kids still learning to distinguish between nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, offerings in the Mad Libs Junior line—including Super Silly Mad Libs Junior—provide an example ...

We were all taught in elementary school that adverbs modify verbs and adjectives modify nouns: Happy adults sing happily. That’s true, but there’s more to the story.