Here we will focus on words that end in ‘y’ that make the long ‘e’ sound. Before writing words ending in the long ‘e’ sound, you should be confident that you can form the letter ‘y ...

In fact, English speakers have come up with a bunch of words for plural you. Snooty grammar teachers might not like them, but they get the job done. Used primarily in the Southern U.S., y’all is ...

It was in 1623 that lexicographer Henry Cockeram recorded (or invented) the word apricity in his book The English Dictionarie: Or, An Interpreter Of Hard English Words. Sadly, it never stuck around.

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...