When we think about our lives, we generally expect that it’s the big events that will bring us the most joy later on–remembering that amazing trip to Tahiti, say, or that huge work success. And ...

Martha Brockenbrough, founder of The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, started National Grammar Day in 2008. Since then it has been held every year on March 4th, a date that also happens to ...

The linguistic construction of civil society carries with it the authentication of pedagogical institutions. The sentence vaguely makes sense, 6 of its 14 words contain at least three syllables and ...

Is making a sentence like riding a bicycle? A neat little experiment by Victor Ferreira and his co-authors suggests, as I read it, that we store a verbal style and perhaps our very character the same ...

Teaching students to write in the active voice will significantly strengthen their essays because sentences written in the active voice often have much more impact than those written in the passive ...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...