If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday conversation, listeners react immediately, anticipate what others will say ...

We start our discussion of syntax and how we morph words into questions and stories. Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it ...

Is making a sentence like riding a bicycle? A neat little experiment by Victor Ferreira and his co-authors suggests, as I read it, that we store a verbal style and perhaps our very character the same ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...