A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.

It is possible to use the structure verb + somebody + verb-ing: I can't imagine you living in a foreign country. I don't like you telling me what to do all the time. In the passive form, use being and ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

According to survey data shared with USA TODAY by Teacher Tapp − which polls British educators on school-related issues to inform public policy − more than half of the 10,000 elementary school ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

Before a thought becomes fully formed — before a movement finds its shape or an idea gains its edges —it exists in a hazy, ...

Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

This year's pick from Oxford University Press comes after 'Brain Rot' was named last year's word of the year - about the ...

Golly, tangled within the tinsel and lights, taped together with glittery bows and multi-colored paper of this season, people ...