It's quite probable that, for many students, the first time they hear about the present or past perfect (pluperfect), is in a foreign language class. Suddenly, new grammatical terminology appears, ...

Ajay plays the big, black grand piano. Teagan watches television. Some verbs do not need an object to make sense. These either: Work alone, as in, ‘Connor screamed.’ Describes a ‘state’ as in, ‘Maire ...

Imagine you step into an undergraduate General English classroom at a college or university in India, anticipating a new, interesting blend of literature and ideas. Unfortunately, you discover that ...

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The manifest world comprises perceptions of the body, emotions of the mind and thoughts of the intellect. The world is the object of experience while the Self within, the unmanifest subject of ...

There are two striking features of language that any scientific theory of this quintessentially human behavior must account for. The first is that we do not all speak the same language. This would be ...