"Nicely" is the adverb here as it describes how the Gorilla Monster is playing with the train. He quickly ate his breakfast. In the sentence above, the adverb 'quickly' appears before the verb 'ate'.

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

We all sometimes make mistakes when speaking or writing. Here, some of the common grammar mistakes people make and how to correct them.

Ginger Philbrick Nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives when spoken or written singularly convey no harm. But when constructed in sentences uttered in a mean-spirited manner they can literally alter our ...

It looks like there's a new strategy for publishers to sell more books. They're now ramping up the use of the word F*ck, the F-word, in the titles of their books.

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network Look closely at this image, stripped of ...

What is the value of a single word? As a writer, I have suffered while editors eliminated phrases, sentences, even entire ...

The third neural net was relatively simple and processed language using vectorized representations of those “move red right” ...