All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

In the long run, there are important differences, mainly because the concepts and words people use affect their understanding of the world and ultimately the social forces that develop. In the short ...