In Analogies^x, Numbers^x, Verbs^x

"Grammar and exercises are only requirements of the syllabus, not of learning a language. Did you learn the grammar of your mother-tongue when you were acquiring it? Most of you may still not know the grammar of your mother-tongue but you speak it effortlessly." If grammar means identifying...

Essay on The Collective Noun by Sophie Johnson Traditionally, the noun that names a collective is considered to be singular. Being singular, the verbial that denotes its act is also singular: (1) The family prays every evening. (2) Australia is playing against Portugal in the final...

The parking lot can park a lot of cars. Your focus on "can" is throwing you off the track. The problem lies with the verb "park". "park" is the verb which requires an animate agent, not "can"! A parking lot ('car park' in British English) cannot move the car into a parking space. That is...