A:. A crow, a robin and a parakeet walk into a bar . . . OK, just kidding! Half a millennium ago, someone probably did walk into a bar – an iron bar that had been curved at the end for use as a lever ...

Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

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 ...