Too many cooks spoil the broth. So says an English idiom. The fact that English has borrowed from so many world languages seems to have injected...
Stative Verbs In English – Many Nigerians are familiar with the definition of a verb as “an action word or a doing word”. This correct but...
English is spoken in almost every part of the world and it has been domesticated in these different countries to reflect their sociocultural realities. These national...
In this treatise, I describe as unconventional nouns those whose plural markers do not generate their plural forms. For such nouns, the addition of -s, –...
Register In English — Every field of life or area of specialisation deploys certain technical words to explain its accompanying technicalities. These words are often esoteric in...
The conjugation of some verbs could prove perplexing for many a speaker of English. For specifics, the verbs ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ are examples that innumerable users...
Native speakers of English are supposed models to second-language users such as Nigerians. This is, however, not always so, especially at the level of consummate grammar....