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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.