I learned recently about zeugmas, and they make me happy because I didn’t know they were a thing with a name. A zeugma connects parts of sentences with the same verb. It comes from a Greek root ...

Linguists are always taken aback by the overwhelmingly negative and sometimes virulently expressed reaction they get when stating something that every linguist believes (and linguists do not agree on ...

Budgerigars are grammar pedants too. Just like us, these parrots use the grammatical structure of unfamiliar phrases to work out what they mean. There is evidence that some birds pay attention to the ...

Knowledge - Grammar / Spelling Ever gotten called out for the difference between you’re and your? We’ve all been there–and we don’t ever want to go back. These insightful and interesting grammar ...

Notice that this student used not one, not two, but eight perfectly grammatical sentences to say that their grammar is bad — so bad that it’s standing in the way of pursuing dreams in a scientific ...

Software that analyzes the grammar of a sentence. It can check for and highlight incomplete sentences, awkward phrases, wordiness and poor grammar. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

The city of Tijuana, Mexico has some messages for you, painted on underpasses, walls and fences in bold black words: "Respiro tu nombre"—I breathe your name; "Siempre es hoy"—it’s always today; "Dilo ...