Imagine trying to speak without expressing possibility, permission,or necessity; it would be like painting without colour. That’s were the modal verb step in. These special helping verbs—can, could, ...

Different verbs take different types of complements and assign them to various positions. Two that we will consider here are ergative and unaccusative verbs. The basic one each assign a single ...

For a thorough understanding of how English verbs work, let’s make a full-dress review of this part of speech by going back to its very basics. Recall that a verb is a word that expresses an act, ...

Categorise verbs according to their process type. These goats like to "herd" their verbs into categories to keep them in order. Use your knowledge of doing, saying, sensing, thinking, feeling and ...

In Learners' Questions in Session 4, Dan looks at phrasal verbs with the word pop. Here's a guide to phrasal verbs. Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the ...

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Callum and Catherine discuss four different types of phrasal verb.

Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 3a Serie, Vol. 2 (49), The Eritrean Cultural Heritage: Facts and Projects: Italo-Eritrean Workshop (Naples, 12-13 December 2017) (2018), pp. 119-144 (26 pages) Tigre has ...

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...