Man in striped blue shirt and glasses: A sentence should open, introduce a subject, deal with that subject and then come to a conclusion. Man in blue jumper and hat: Start, middle and end. Man in ...

In fact, this is what I love most about English grammar: It affords a mechanical understanding of how sentences perform — some of them like expertly engineered race cars, others like AMC Gremlins.

Geoff Pullum reflects on subordinate clauses, essay questions, teacher training, and an interesting experiment at a high school on Staten Island.

The grammar we are constructing here only goes as far as the phonological component we which call P-structure. We are not attempted to interpret a string at this time. Currently it is assumed that ...

In addition to the basics, like spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation, WhiteSmoke will comment on your sentence structure and style. It will even scan for plagiarism.

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In this educational film, three authors, Tony, Bob, and Allan, engage in a process of analyzing and improving their story about a Mars mission. They discuss the importance of sentence structure ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...