A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

They describe the relationship that nouns, pronouns or noun phrases have to other words in a sentence. Such as ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘beside’. ‘Space Cadet Carl lives in a space station’. ‘In’ is a ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...