In English grammar, a dynamic verb is used mainly to indicate an action, process, or sensation instead of a state. Also called an action verb or an event verb. Also known as a non-stative verb or action verb. Contrast with a stative verb. There are three types of dynamic verbs: 1) accomplishment verbs, 2) achievement verbs, and 3) activity verbs.

An exploratory essay is a brief work of nonfiction in which a writer works out of a problem or explores an idea or experience, without attempting to back up a claim or support a thesis.

Predicative adjective is a traditional term for an adjective that typically comes after a linking verb rather than before a noun. Another word for a predicative adjective is a subject complement.

An inflectional morpheme is a suffix that’s attached to a word (a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb) to assign a grammatical property to that word, like its tense, number, possession, or comparison. Inflectional morphemes in English have  the bound morphemes -s (or -es), ‘s (or s’), -ed; -en; -er, -est, and -ing. Suffixes may even do double- or triple-duty. For instance, – s can note possession, make count nouns plural, or put a verb in the

A humorous essay is a personal or familiar essay with the main aim of amusing readers rather than advising or persuading them. Also known as a comic essay or light essay. Humorous essays often rely on narration as a dominant rhetorical and organizational strategy. Three Quick Tips for Creating a Humorous Essay 1. You must have a story, not just jokes. If your objective

In English grammar, “anaphora” is the usage of a pronoun or linguistic unit to refer to another word. The adjective is anaphoric, and the phrase is well-known by the phrases anaphoric reference or backward anaphora. A word that gets its significance from a preceding word or phrase is known as an anaphor. The

An editor is an person who oversees the planning of a text for newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. The term editor can refer to an person who assists an author in copyediting content. Editor Chris King explains her job as “invisible mending.” “An editor,” she says, “is like a ghost, in that her handiwork should never be

A plan for the writing process to help students structure, organize, and manage their writing.

A writing activity and composition strategy in which students are given time and space to prewrite, draft, revise, and edit their written work for publication or sharing with others.

Class exercises for writing instruction based on the specific needs of students, which focus on distinct aspects of written language, such as spelling and punctuation, that are unfamiliar to the learners as well as broader elements of language such as prewriting, paraphrasing, and editing.