From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

“Gifted” used to be an adjective, basically used as a term for smarty-pants kids. Or, to broaden it, to describe anybody with unusually strong abilities that they were born with. Like, say, not just a ...

From commas and apostrophes to verb tenses and clauses, this 30-question UK English-inspired quiz puts your everyday language ...

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Death can no longer present itself as an abstract noun for someone who was grievously stabbed more than a dozen times, after ...

Parts of speech are dumbfounded  A visitor tells a boy who answers the door that he’s come to meet his mother, and gets the sullen reply, ‘She was in, she is  out!’ The aghast ...

Learn when to use 'has' vs 'have' with easy rules, examples, tables, and practice questions. A complete grammar guide for ...

Brands can shatter when their core meaning breaks. This article examines why. It looks at companies like Kodak, Volkswagen, and Boeing. These brands failed because their actions did not match their ...

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’ Defining relative clauses 'May', 'might' and 'could' 'Used to' Subject ...

Learn the simple English trick of the day to never confuse 'a' vs 'an' again – easy rule that works 100% of the time, even ...

Common English Grammar Mistakes: English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to grammar. From confusing “its” and “it’s” to ...

A team of researchers from Saarbrücken and Leipzig has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might occur universally. Of 191 grammatical patterns – known as linguistic universals ...