For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Over the past week, I glimpsed several grammar constructions worth sharing on this ...

Gerunds are the -ing form of a verb, and infinitives are the to + base form. These words can be confusing; they combine the meaning of a verb with the grammar of a noun. My father asked me to phone ...

A Facebook friend, Espie Corpuz, recently posted this grammar request on my Facebook page that serves as gateway to Jose Carillo’s English Forum: “Please discuss for everyone which is correct: (1) ...

Last week, to answer a question from an Iran-based English teacher, I started laying out the basis for why the full infinitive “to take” is the correct answer in this multiple-choice statement: “Peter ...

The dictionary definition of a participle is; ‘a verb ending in –‘ing’ (present) or –‘ed’, -‘en’, -d, -t, -n, or -ne (past) that functions as an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun. A participial ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...