“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” Wordsworth once wrote. “But to be young was very heaven.” As an undergraduate at Smith, it was like that every day—the kind of bountiful spirit that comes when ...

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to use the ...