Those 10 people who read last week’s column may remember that I promised more vocabulary study, but like a lot of people I ...

Adjectives are used to tell us about nouns or pronouns. They give us information about what someone or something is like. Adverbs tell us about verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. They give us ...

A root has no lexical meaning and the semantic range of the root is vague if there is any at all. A stem may contain derivational affixes. Consider the following nouns, adjectives and verbs in English ...

Nominalizations are nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or verbs (action words ... they should be avoided since they add extra words without extra meaning. Wordy: Owing ...