Nouns and Pronouns
Every sentence you will ever read or write is built around two jobs: naming things and standing in for things already named. Nouns do the naming. Pronouns do the standing in. Get comfortable with these two parts of speech and the rest of grammar – agreement, case, clear reference – suddenly makes sense, because almost […]
Suffixes and Word Families
Prefixes get the drama — they can flip a word’s meaning — but suffixes do the quiet, structural work of English. The ending of a word usually tells you what kind of word it is: whether it names something, describes something, or tells how something happened. That is information you can use even when you […]
