The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

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Everything about the day was planned for maximum cruelty. No analogues in modern history exist. Call it simply. Opinion.

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After years of writing, studying psychology, and geeking out on language research, I’ve noticed something quietly reliable: ...

This phenomenon is known as metonymy, a form of abstract communication in which one word or phrase is substituted for another. In this case the proper noun “Pearl Harbor” came to denote the surprise ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

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A pronoun takes the place of a noun close nounA noun is the name of a thing, such as an object, a place, or a person. in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you', 'we', 'they ...