A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language. This ...

In addition, some of these verbs need an object, usually a person or people. The police warned us not to enter the building. The speaker invited the audience to ask questions. The best way to learn ...

Yee from Hong Kong writes: I'm so confused by the following verbs: hear, see, make, let and allow. Are these verbs followed by another verb in +ing form or to + base form? see / hear + object + verb ...

A good few years back the old Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, carried out research into the mistakes most commonly made by learners in their written Irish. The ...

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 ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Dan. Admit to doing something wrong: admit + -ing. Admit means 'tell the truth about doing ...