2014年12月20日 · preventive and preventative interpretive and interpretative exploitive and exploitative authoritive and authoritative Is there a term, grammatical or not, for these pairs?

I have observed that there are, at least, two patterns of pronunciation for words ending in -ative: The first syllable is stressed and the suffix is pronounced as /eɪtɪv/ (e.g. qualitative) The se...

2019年12月10日 · Don't think of the names of the categories quite so literally. The University of Victoria's Study Zone specifically lists "sleep" as a dynamic verb, and from the description it should be pretty clear why: Dynamic verbs (sometimes referred to as "action verbs") usually describe actions we can take, or things that happen [S]tative verbs usually refer to a state or …