The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar — which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas.

Yiyun Li’s latest memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” begins with a careful analysis of a sentence often used to deliver ...

Notice that this student used not one, not two, but eight perfectly grammatical sentences to say that their grammar is bad — so bad that it’s standing in the way of pursuing dreams in a scientific ...

Without such a framework, the language risks continued fragmentation, inconsistent development, and limited functionality in ...

Similar to how people from different parts of the world have accents, social media creators who reside in the online world have developed a voice inflection that often mirrors each other. This is ...

I am completely lost. Sitting across from me a young Slovak woman has been telling me earnestly about her friend. She speaks very good English but at a crucial point she lapses: "Sometimes he is just ...

Remember the lessons we learned growing up? “Don’t lie.” “Don’t steal.” “Don’t kill,” and “Respect others.” Lovely little guidelines — printed on classroom ...

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and teenagers can’t stop repeating and laughing about and parents and teachers can’t make any sense of.

It’s about how ADHD symptoms impact on your day-to-day functioning. Here’s how clinicians assess this, and where people might ...

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

As we are in what I like to call the seventh-inning stretch of the fall semester, my English composition students are preparing to write their final short essay on “Gen Z: Technology and ...