Want to get a great job? Here’s what the experts say: Garnish your résumé with strong verbs. LinkedIn, for example, declares: “Use strong verbs to make your résumé more vibrant.” Who says this makes ...

The verb is the engine that drives the sentence. In "The tracks made a line in the snow," the engine lacks horsepower. In "The tracks cut a line in the snow," the engine has thrust. To make your ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. “Companies have always strived,” says your report last week (“Analysts sceptical as ‘earnings before ...

In an item here last week two readers questioned the use of grinded as the past tense of grind. They cited such sentences as this: 'Team A grinded out a rushing game last night in defeating Team B." ...

There are two main classes of verbs in English: strong and weak. 'Strong' is a historical terms that refers to the of verbs in which the past tense is marked by a change in the base vowel and the ...