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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

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 ...

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study. Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical ...

In academic and professional environments, communication is one of the most powerful tools you possess. Whether you are drafting an email to a colleague, guiding a team through a project, or ...

ABC Education has a fun and exciting way for primary students to develop, practise and extend their grammar and language skills. The Greatest of All Time (GOAT) Grammar games are perfect for ...