On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster brought Instagram into a elite group of companies including the likes of Google and Xerox: those that have impacted the culture to the point where they become verbs.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A note on verbs. In the Art of Persuasion column a fortnight ago I discussed how you make the reader’s (or ...

Johnson & Johnson is moving to fully take over its robotic surgery venture with Google’s sibling company, Verily, by acquiring the remaining stake of Verb Surgical. J&J described the four-year-old ...

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 ...

Verb Technology Co (NASDAQ:VERB) shares are rising Monday after the company announced a private placement to implement a TON treasury strategy. The company announced the pricing of an upsized and ...

English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...

The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going to ...

As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...

The DSKY in action. NASA. The Apollo guidance computer did a lot with a little, but the idea that your cell phone has more computer power is a little off. Yes, a smartphone can hold more information ...

Conjugation is a very long word, isn't it? In grammar, when you conjugate a verb, it just means that you change the verb in order for a sentence to make sense. Correctly conjugated verbs communicate ...

A brand reaches its apotheosis when it slips into the vernacular as a generic noun—Band-Aid, Kleenex, even Dumpster. Anyone else’s dad still say “Dempster Dumpster,” for the brothers who patented it ...