The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

We’re all guilty of talking to inanimate objects, whether it’s a plant we’re watering or a car that won’t start. It’s not a big deal, so long as we don’t expect them to answer back—ha! That being said ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...