Phrasal verbs are verbs that contain more than one word. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English ...
When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...
To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct ...
WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...
Abstract: A method exists for detecting ambiguous expressions in requirements specifications using a dictionary focused on transitive verbs and their objects. This dictionary is constructed by ...
A network is a group or system of things that have multiple connections between them, like a network of train stations with railways linking them together. There are words that often go together – ...
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People who enjoy public speaking are luckier than they realise. A much-publicised survey from the 1970s claimed that Americans feared it more than death. In 2012 Karen Dwyer and Marlina Davidson of ...
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