Commentary: It never ceases to annoy me when people misuse the written word. English is a beautifully ugly language.

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

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The HESI A2 examination stands for Heath Education Systems Incorporated Admissions Assessment and acts as a way to test a student’s potential success in an intense nursing program. The Orvis School of ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Writers, like restaurant patrons and grocery store customers, hold secret meetings to decide when to act as a herd: A slow restaurant suddenly gets busy? That’s no accident. It’s a conspiracy. Ditto ...

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a key task in natural language processing (NLP), widely applied in education, news, and ...

A new study has shown that children as young as two understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical ...