Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...

Have you ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future? We’re inviting you on an exploration of languages that have taken verb ...

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to use the ...

Irregular verbs close (irregular) verbAn irregular verb does not follow a set pattern. do not follow a set pattern. Some other important verbs, such as écrire (to write) and connaître (to know a ...

There is a misconception that all verbs in a paragraph should be in the same tense. The choice of the appropriate verb tense depends on context and meaning.

Practise forming regular verbs in past, present and future. Welcome to Camp GOAT — the destination for fancy time-travelling goats and their friends. Join the camp activities, but remember that you ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...