By Nouns, Vocabulary

It's not actually in my active vocabulary, but the concept was. My husband gave me a book of mangled song lyrics with cartoon pictures to match. I always did hear "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "There's a bathroom on the right." (I guess the living room was on...

.pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect?Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A nounWould you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation.I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb?Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?

Finnish is extremely rich in compounds. This because all concepts are written as one word. Therefore all of these examples are compounds in Finnish: a collection of butterflies, a heap of sand, a bottle of beer, a department store, foreign policy, air force, labour permit, night train etc. Since...

Hello everyone. It has been a long time since I posted. Since my last post I have been working hard on improving my vocabulary and writing skills. I still have trouble understanding and using some words, mainly nouns ending in ity like the word conformity. I have written a few sentences using...

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

As long as I am very poor in English vocabulary, I thought it would be good to learn new vocabularies through games. Let us see if you like it or not? The game start like this, New Word Will Be Added here WITH it's defintion, each member follows should put the word in a sentence or small...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the complement...

I may be wrong, but I think a person needs a fairly extensive vocabulary to come up with these kinds of examples. Often simple participles like running, swimming, cooking, dancing, and so on, are not often used before nouns, or if they are, it's not the easiest thing in the world to invent...