If you’ve ever written a paper where you had to include citations, whether in APA, MLA or some other style, you may have found that doing them correctly can be as stressful as writing the paper itself! It doesn’t help that in the past few years, information has begun to come at us in so …
Telling prepositional verbs apart is a back-breaking, Herculean mental task for both native English language users and non-natives alike. Interestingly, this is quite an unsurprising phenomenon according to language experts, as learning prepositions entail a higher level of grammatical maturity. So, you should never, ever panic about why you cannot easily make out the difference …
Addresses seem like they should be simple, but there are a lot of fine details involved. Is the address for a building? A P.O. Box? How do you properly abbreviate “court”? What name should you use for the recipient? The situation has only gotten more complicated as email and websites have changed the meaning of …
The phrase “Cat’s in the cradle” is most popularly used in reference to Harry Chapin’s 1974 song of the same name. The song is about a father and son’s broken relationship, and is popularly interpreted as a warning against not investing enough time in one’s family. The song’s chorus references a series of children’s stories. …
A wise man once said that to truly learn a language, we must always learn two: The formal, written one, and the informal, spoken one. Of course, this is an oversimplification. The point stands, however, that language is a living thing. You can spend as many hours as you want in a library in front …
Have you ever seen a dainty-looking ant walking along carrying a huge insect carcass on its back? Whether they have a scrunched-up spider or a long, rigid centipede on their backs, ants are the world’s most adept weightlifters. Even though they have tiny, thin legs, slim waists, and disjointed, node-like torsos, ants can carry over …