The power of language lies in its ability to define human habits and values in a single word, and “abstemious” is indeed an ...

Do you know how to use “as…as” correctly in English? In this lesson, we break down one of the most common comparison ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has expanded its lexicon for 2026 with the inclusion of 22 new expressions drawn from ...

Elementary teachers can use these books to give students an easy entry point into writing now that winter break is over—and ...

24 pages : 24 x 29 cm24 pages : 24 x 29 cm If you were an adverb, you would often end in ly. You could tell people how things happen, how often things happen and when things happen Includes ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House. So yesterday, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

First books, then the Internet have changed our relationship with adventure. Reinforced by television, then video games, the notion of static adventure has become natural. Adventure has become ...

Language often gives us words that quietly describe the fabric of everyday life, and quotidian is one such word. Though it ...