Getting sentence structure right, is crucial in being able to communicate what you're trying to say in writing. Sentence ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Understanding sentence structure and grammar rules is the secret to writing and speaking with clarity. From subjects and ...

I’ve come to praise the paragraph, not to bury it. Such appreciation was not always my thing. The early instruction I received made construction of a paragraph seem so mechanical, so formulaic, so ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

English was my worst subject (next to Health) in high school right through to my second year of university when I stopped taking English. I'd fallen afoul of the empty rule syndrome You can save this ...

technical level — the kind of thing you’d study in a graduate course on the structure of English — it is filled with persuasive observations and advice. Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas ...