These seemingly innocuous terms are the bane of many a writer and speaker, consistently leading to grammatical pile-ups in sentences that should otherwise be cruising smoothly. They’re the subtle ...

“Hi, Magi. Your eyes look so sunken! What’s going on? Are you binge-watching?” “No, Millie. I was surfing the net looking for ...

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.

Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou 313001, P. R. China ...

Nigel Farage has slammed the sentence received by an asylum seeker convicted of sexual assault, describing it as an "absolute disgrace" to LBC. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who ...