“Do the dishes.” “I don’t do windows.” “I do.” In that job, it works the same as any other garden variety verb. But on top of that, it has a special job — that of dummy operator.

Grammar jargon can be pretty off-putting. Try dropping a term like dangling participle or object predicative at your next office party and you’ll see what I mean. That’s why I avoid the stuffy ...

Then auxiliary verbs are divided into modal auxiliary verbs and non-modal auxiliary verbs. In English auxiliary verbs are syntactically differentiated from main verbs in several ways. First, the ...

To-do lists are action plans, but all too often we try to define those actions using wimpy, meaningless verbs. For a to-do list you can get some traction on, try replacing vague verbs with ...

In this exercise, you'll see input verbs and model verbs. If you choose ring as your model verb, and then bring as your input verb, bring will conjugate the way that ring normally does. (You will ...

The good news about subject-verb agreement is that there is only one basic rule: Verbs must agree in number with their subjects. In other words, singular subjects take singular verbs, and plural ...