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 ...

A new study found that nouns actually take longer to spit out than verbs do, presumably because they require more thought to produce.

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 ...

Choosing agreeable verbs for collective nouns Nouns and verbs must “agree” in English. But the difference between “formal” and “notional” agreement is a contentious topic.

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

Nominalizations are grammatical, and a lot of adjectives and verbs have noun forms, but using nominalizations can occasionally lead to terrible writing.

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has entered rehab to deal with his “struggles with nouns and verbs,” an aide to the congressman has confirmed. According ...

I found five effective ways to teach the link between imagination and grammar. 1. Set up the imaginative tripod Most of the stories students brought to me lacked a clear sense of perspective. I ...

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.