Adjectives and Adverbs
“The patient walked good today.” Something about that sentence should itch. Fix it – walked well – and you have just applied the single most tested rule about adjectives and adverbs. These two parts of speech are the describers of English, and most errors come from putting one where the other belongs. This lesson shows […]
Action, Linking, and Helping Verbs
Ask most students what a verb is and they will say “an action word.” That is true for verbs like run, measure, and document – but it misses two whole families. Some verbs do not act at all; they connect. Others do not stand alone; they help. Telling the three apart is the skill behind […]
