Participial forms of many verbs function as adjectives in phrases and sentences. An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun. Any word, even if it is associated with a different part of ...

When a student writes "I am frustrating with that class," we recognize it as an error, but the error is not one that makes the writing unintelligible. The message ...

Last night, Joe dreamt of Mary. Or would it be better to say that he dreamed of her? More important: How can you know for sure? Past participles confuse a lot of people. Take it from someone whose ...

A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...