Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...

Have you ever read your own sentence and felt that something sounds a little stiff or robotic? Do you sometimes think your writing is correct but still not smooth enough? If yes, you are not alone.

Let’s face it: Sometimes the English language can be downright bizarre. The plural of ox is oxen while the plural of box is boxes, ‘rough’ rhymes with ‘gruff’ even though the two words only have two ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Words, like people, can achieve a lot more ...

Martha Brockenbrough, founder of The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, started National Grammar Day in 2008. Since then it has been held every year on March 4th, a date that also happens to ...