There are words that are easy to understand, and then, there are words like “recondite.” The thing about “recondite” is that it doesn’t just describe something obscure and complex to figure out, it is ...

ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “anointed” - late 14c., "smeared with oil," past-participle adjective from anoint (v.) The noun meaning "a consecrated one" (as in Lord's Anointed) 🕎2 Samuel ...

PHOENIX -- THE MORNING after A'ja Wilson hit the game-winning shot in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals -- the basket that gave her Las Vegas Aces a 3-0 series lead and became the defining image of Wilson's ...

One of my aggravating moments is when I read in a newspaper, or hear on a television newscast, the total misuse of the words “democracy” (noun), democratic (adjective), and Democrat (proper noun). How ...

The goal of this package is to provide a simple, idiomatic and elegant way of defining parsers in Go. Participle's method of defining grammars should be familiar to any Go programmer who has used the ...

These levels can be helpful in developing learning outcomes because certain verbs are particularly appropriate at each level and not appropriate at other levels (though some verbs are useful at ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe That one word speaks volumes. By John McWhorter A.I. and spell-check ...

Abstract: This paper delves into the method of identifying adjectives from participles during translating from Uzbek to English for machine translation. As it is clear that the difference is huge in ...

The names of all three of these folks have gotten the adjective treatment. | Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images (QEI), traveler1116/DigitalVision Vectors ...

Present continuous and 'going to' The zero and first conditionals Modals of deduction and speculation The past perfect Adjectives and adverbs The third conditional Linking devices: cause and effect ...

Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives. For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com ...

“I know words. I have the best words,” Donald Trump told a South Carolina crowd as he campaigned for the Republican primary in December 2015. It was just six months into his first campaign, but the ...