In a recent essay in The Guardian about whether America can ever recover from what happened after 9/11, the American feature writer Gary Younge says: An effective response to 9/11 that would have ...

Inversion is a sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve emphasis and better sentence transitions. It puts a prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival ...

Grammar books, and hundreds of websites out there, are appallingly confused about statements, questions, orders, and exclamations. Most of the problem lies in their failure to distinguish syntax from ...

There is a centuries old tradition of using needle and thread to make statements. Painting was for cathedrals, sculpture was for plazas, but embroidery was usually the only art in people's homes. For ...

John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor and full-throated Mitt Romney surrogate for many months now, offered a strong defense of the former Massachusetts governor's Boston campaign team in an ...

Several models have been proposed to account for the neurocognitive basis of the mental lexicon (a repository of stored words) and the mental grammar (which captures ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

After nearly four years of failing to provide meaningful oversight of the Iraq war, it is no wonder that the newly Democratic Congress is eager to make up for lost time. Congressional proposals for ...