“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

MODIFIERS give us information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence. They are important because they help to paint the true picture of the information we seek to convey to our reader or listener. The ...

We know what an adjective is – it's a word that modifies a noun. What about a word that modifies an adjective? That's an adverb, of course (adverbs also modify verbs and other adverbs)! OK, I'm just ...

We will recall that by definition, a gerund is a verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun in a sentence, as singing in She loves singing, and that a gerund phrase is a gerund modified by ...

Ah, the adverb train station. If you want to find out about adverbs, there is no better place. An adverb tells you how something happens. Here is a train moving "quickly" on the track. “Quickly” is an ...