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 ...

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 ...

The English language can be so confusing. As a copy editor, my task is to correct mistakes in grammar and style. Does this make me an expert? Definitely not. I recently came across a post that one of ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...

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 ...

In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4 th graders, wanted the drums. I ended up with the clarinet. I did not want to play the ...