Matthew Adams breaks down the difference between the active and passive voice, including which is better. Plus, Adams shares ...

Beginning a story with such pronouns denotes the writer's lack of thought. It is a tame pronoun. But placing negative and ...

The word "fumble" is a verb that means to handle something clumsily or to struggle awkwardly with a task. A "fumble" can be ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) ...

The word "tweak" is a verb that means to make small adjustments or fine-tune something for improvement. A "tweak" isn't a ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...

Strong leadership requires clear communication. Learn the difference between passive and direct language, when to use each, ...

Alluding to the power of verbs on their subjects conveys the implicit strength of nonverbal parental examples, i.e., attitude, tone, and behavior, by analogy. This metaphor provides a strong ...

The success of generative AI depends on trust, and the path to safe commercialization can be more complicated than many think ...

Genevieve Larkin, the wisenheimer social climber in the film “Gold Diggers of 1937,” might not have known the term, but she ...

Then came automatic translators like Google Translate and others. They learned by memorizing linguistic rules. For example, ...

Saanich’s Quadra McKenzie Plan proposes large-scale changes to neighbourhoods. It has met with overwhelming opposition by ...