Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

Sometime in the 20 th century, shit—having already long been a verb and then a noun—also became an adjective, as in He was a shit teacher or That restaurant has shit service. Exactly when this ...

Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball.

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English is used as a lingua franca among the people of many countries across the world. Its importance as a foreign language, ...