You’ve likely heard or read a participle before: combining the characteristics of a verb and an adjective , a participle is one of the building blocks of English grammar. Without them, your work would ...

There are two participles, il participio presente (present participle) and il participio passato (past participle).

I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about how the word “satisfying” has taken on a new meaning among many of today’s kids. The bigger theme ...

Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong. MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense), ...