In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

English grammar is in a state of continual evolution, manifesting a dynamic interplay between historical conventions and emerging usage. This evolution is evidenced by shifts in syntactic structures, ...

“Whom” is having a rough couple of centuries. The object pronoun beloved by fans of proper English seems to be less popular than ever. And I don’t just mean in casual speech. I mean in published ...

THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Kirsten Lambert does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Adjectives in English must always be used in a very precise order. And even though none of us has officially learned this rule, placeholderwe somehow all know to follow it, and that things seem very ...

In the 17th century, they also suspected that the rules of grammar stood between them and a society of equals. By Teresa M. Bejan Dr. Bejan is a professor of political theory. Pronouns are the most ...