WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

An increase means that there is more of something There are some words that we often use with 'increase'. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that we often use with the noun ...

Research is an activity where you study or investigate something to learn new things about it. There are some words that we often use together with 'research'. These are called collocations. Learn ...

Actor Alec Baldwin, accompanied by his brother Stephen, narrowly avoided a collision with a massive garbage truck in the Hamptons. Swerving to prevent an accident, Baldwin crashed his wife Hilaria's ...

To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct ...

LORIS-A funeral service for Robert “Wayne” English, 61, will be held Oct. 14 at 10:30 a.m. in Mt. Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. David Watts and the Rev. Ross Altman officiating. Committal services ...

As guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali prunes its branches and gathers its fruit even as violence plagues the Palestinian territory during this year's harvest. "This ...

A recent probe found that forest rangers were also harvesting pine nuts from immature trees and then storing them in the ground or selling them to friends and relatives FILE PHOTO: A woman in Wonsan, ...

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