Strong English sentence skills are the secret to expressing yourself clearly, whether you’re writing an email, chatting with friends, or speaking in public. By understanding sentence structure, ...

Can language exist without grammar? Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure. What is an adjective? Learn about the importance of adjectives ...

I’ve previously published a series on teachers’ favorite lessons for ELL newcomers. Now, it’s time to do the same for intermediate ELLs. Maria Cruz teaches English for speakers of other languages at ...

Almost six years ago a Russian member of Jose Carillo’s “English Forum" posed a very interesting question about a little discussed functional element of English sentence structure — the determiners, ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...