For this week’s column, we break from our regularly scheduled program of well-fleshed-out individual topics to reach into my grab bag of language issues popping up in my little corner of the grammar ...

In these examples, down and back are not prepositions but function as adverbs to extend or change the meaning of the verb. This combination of verb and adverb is always known as a phrasal verb. Note ...

A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.