Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

In the Higher English Critical Reading assessment, you will be asked to comment on examples of language in an extract from a Scottish text you have previously studied (and elsewhere in the text).

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Years ago, a copy editor working on a reporter’s story changed some of the “whiches” to “thats” when they were being ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Critics have generally considered Henry James's style to be a major element of his prose fiction. Previous discussions of his style have ...