Participles are verbs that can act as an adjective or another verb tense when combined with other verbs. There are three types of participles and two functions. Keep reading to learn what a participle is| GRAMMARIST
Correct sentence structure is one of the first things beginning writers learn, and remembering the proper use of a subject and object pronoun can be difficult. Pronouns are easy to overuse, misplace, or confuse in| GRAMMARIST
In English, there are hundreds of nouns that don't follow the standard rules for pluralization. There are no easy ways to remember them, so they generally have to be memorized. Some of the rarer irregular plurals| GRAMMARIST
Collective nouns are countable nouns that refer to groups of people, objects, or things. A collective noun differs from a mass noun (a noun that cannot be counted---e.g., love, water, evidence) because it can be| GRAMMARIST
An agent noun denotes a person who performs an action. Most agent nouns end in either -er (standard) or -or (for words derived directly from Latin). A recipient noun denotes a person who receives an| GRAMMARIST
Nouns sometimes function as adjectives. For example, in each of these phrases, the first word is usually a noun but here functions as an adjective modifying the second word: city government, article writer, bicycle thief,| GRAMMARIST