So, let's spruce up your resume with a few action verbs and phrases that will catch the recruiters eye. When you created or wrote something... Acted, Adapted, Combined, Composed, Conceptualized, ...

Here, gratefully borrowed from various sources, is a list of 10 action verbs to open your mind and spark your imagination. The more specific you can be with an action, the better. Consider these ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

At its core, language is all about the action — to wit, the verbs. Duolingo has, to be sure, taught my daughter a nice little collection of verbs. But if I could wave a magic wand, she’d know ...

Nothing really happens when there's no direct object to take the action: "The woman spurned last week." "Her suitor found yesterday." When a transitive verb can't act on anything, in fact ...