You may think you’re a stickler for all things grammar-related, but don’t be surprised if you realize you’re guilty of these tricky mistakes. You probably mean “I couldn’t care less,” which means that ...

Every sensitive reader has pet peeves. One of mine is attributing the power of sight to things that don’t have eyes, as in this sentence from the Wall Street Journal: “Restaurant sales are expected to ...

"The grammatical violations were fully visible to participants, but because they had to complete this extra task, they were often not consciously aware of the violations. They would read the sentence ...

The paomnehal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Typing on a keyboard is a perfect example of how our unconscious mind processes language and functions on autopilot. Are you someone who ‘hunts and pecks’ or do ...

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Scientists have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary, overturning a long-held assumption in the field. The study analyzed 81 Austronesian languages ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...

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