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What is one of those many useful words in the English language which have several functions. Of course, it is an interrogative…

Langue and Parole that developed into Linguistic competence and performance as stated by the linguists Ferdinand De Saussure and…

Parallel grammatical structures form many of our most familiar phrases: sink or swim, live and let live, shape up or shape out. …

My suspicion was right when I condemned the label of some word classes as CLOSED FREE MORPHEMES. The linguistic implication of…

In English, there are two voices: active and passive (Forlini, 2000).  When the subject of a verb performs the action, the verb is…

A reaction to this masculinity brought up theories like FEMINISM in literature and the theory  is meant to fight gender…

According to the popular linguist, John Lyon and other linguists as well, two words cannot have exact same meaning in all…

Words are easier to understand once you know their history, nature, classification and structure without necessarily need to…

Every writer therefore needs to master and understand the correct application of the four lexical rules and this includes the rule…

Beginning a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’ often is a way of cutting overlong sentences into two.  Let’s look at a good example of…