Lists of verbs that start with S can be useful for students, teachers, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. This article lists 150 verbs beginning with S including definitions, grouped into everyday verbs like “save,” “scratch,” and “search” and more advanced verbs like “sanctify,” “speculate,” and “surmise.”
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Try a prompt like: “Give me a list of irregular verbs that start with S.”
Knowing how to write a report is an essential skill in school, college, and many workplaces. Whether you’re writing a lab report for a science class, a case report for a professional program, or a business report to support decision-making, reports typically follow a structured format with clearly presented information organized into sections and a concise, objective writing style.
This article explains the most common types of reports and their defining features—such as standard section headings and stylistic conventions—to help you write reports that are clear, effective, and fit for purpose.
TipBefore submitting your report, run it through QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker to catch issues with grammar, spelling, clarity, and readability.
An email signature should make it easy for people to identify you and find your contact details at the end of your email—without oversharing personal information. The right balance depends on the capacity you’re writing in, whether that’s as a professional representing a company, an individual using a personal email address, or a student communicating in an academic context.
In this guide, you’ll find email signature examples for professional emails, personal emails, and student emails—along with the elements people commonly include in each type—to help you create an email signature that fits the context and doesn’t leave out anything important.
If you plan to include a headshot, you can also use QuillBot’s free background remover to create a clean, professional image for your email signature.
Knowing how to take notes effectively is a core academic skill, but it’s one that we’re sometimes never explicitly taught. Good note-taking isn’t about writing down everything you hear or read—it’s about selecting, organizing, and engaging with information in a way that supports understanding and long-term learning.
This article discusses how to take notes in school or college and introduces the popular Cornell note-taking method.
TipOnce you’ve used your notes to plan and write an assignment, use QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker as part of your final proofreading step before you submit it.
The word around can mean “surrounding,” “along the outside of,” and “to different places.” It functions as a preposition or an adverb and is a particle of phrasal verbs like “come around” and “turn around.”
QuillBot’s free AI chat can help you identify the part of speech of “around” in a sentence.
Around in a sentence examplesPut some bubble wrap around it.
A subject complement is the word or phrase that completes the meaning of a linking verb by describing or identifying the subject of the sentence. QuillBot’s free AI Chat can help you identify subject complements in sentences.
Subject complement in a sentence examplesThe roomwascold. [Subject complement: an adjective describing the subject]
Her favorite sportis soccer. [Subject complement: a noun identifying the subject]
That doesn’tsoundright. [Subject complement: an adjective describing the subject]
The boysbecamefriends. [Subject complement: a noun identifying the subject]
The problemisthat we’re running out of time. [Subject complement: a noun clause identifying the subject]
Professional email sign-offs are the fixed phrases you put before your name at the end of an email for work or business. They often come after a closing line like “Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.”
TipQuillBot’s free AI Chat can help you select the most appropriate sign-off for your professional email.
Choosing the right professional email sign-off is part of good email etiquette and can be tricky—especially when you’re emailing someone for the first time (e.g., introducing yourself in an email) or starting a job in a new industry where you’re not yet sure how formal the communication style should be.
Being able to identify parts of speech is important if you want to understand how English works. QuillBot’s free AI Chat can help you practice identifying parts of speech in a sentence.
The word over can be a preposition of place or time, an adjective, an adverb, or the particle of a phrasal verb. It is part of many idiomatic phrases, like “over the top” and is the opposite of “under” in many contexts.
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Over in a sentence examplesThere used to be a sign over the door.
Published on
November 4, 2025
by
Tom Challenger, BA
Revised on
November 20, 2025
Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports, with its most high-profile matches drawing crowds of over 100,000 spectators and huge TV audiences. If you’re from a country where cricket isn’t widely played but want to understand the game, learning a few basic cricket terms will help you join in conversations about cricket and follow match commentaries.
Here’s a list of 22 cricket terms to get you started.
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Cricket terms list
The stumps
The three “sticks” behind the player who is trying to hit the ball—there are two sets of stumps on a cricket pitch, one at either end
The field
The entire area on which the game is played
The pitch
The rectangular area of shorter grass in the middle of the field where the stumps are
The boundary
The edge of the field marked by a rope on the ground
A run
The word for a point in cricket
To run
To try and score runs by running to the other end of the pitch after you’ve hit the ball
A bat
The thick piece of wood with a handle that you use to hit the ball
Batting
Hitting or blocking the ball with your bat in order to score points (runs) or stop the ball hitting the stumps behind you
A batsman, batswoman, batter
The batsmen or batswomen are the two players who are standing in the middle of the field on the team that is currently batting—batter is a widely used alternative gender-neutral term.
Out
When a batter is out, it is the end of their “chance” to bat—you can get out by letting the ball hit the stumps behind you or by hitting the ball so a player on the other team can catch it in the air before it touches the ground, for instance
Bowling
Throwing the ball in a special way in the direction of the stumps to try and get the batter out (e.g., by hitting the stumps)
The bowler
The player who is bowling the ball in the direction of the batter
Fielding
Stopping, throwing, and catching the ball when you’re on the team that isn’t currently batting
A fielder
One of the players on the field who is not currently batting
The wicketkeeper
The player on the fielding team who stands behind the stumps and whose job is to stop or catch the ball if the batter misses it
An innings
A team’s “turn” to bat rather than field
The wicket
The wicket can refer to:
The stumps, including the two smaller “sticks” balanced on top of them (the bails) (e.g., “The batter hit the wicket with his foot”)
The pitch area (“The grass on the wicket is quite long”)
A wicket
When the fielding team get a batter out (e.g., “India have taken three wickets this morning”)
An over
Bowlers bowl in “sets” of six “bowls” (six balls) called an over
Leg before wicket (LBW)
A way that the batter can get out by missing or deliberately not hitting the ball but letting it hit their legs
A spin bowler
A bowler who specialises in bowling the ball relatively slowly using a technique that makes the ball change direction when it hits the pitch in front of the batter
A run out
A way of getting out when you’re running and fail to reach the stumps you are running to before someone on the fielding team hits them with the ball
