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The movie’s drama – based on a story by Ted Chiang – rests on the sheer strangeness of the Heptapod language, but it’s actually not as alien as it could be. Apart from the sci-fi twist that learning ...

When the right words team up in a sentence, it just sounds right. But when words clash, your ears tell you something’s off. That’s where the rules of concord swoop in to match up words properly.

The popular book “On Writing” contains surprising advice for writers: Read a lot of bad writing so you know what bad writing looks like. Then don’t write like that. Like other technologies, the ...

Have you ever wondered if you’re using the right subject and verb agreement in your writing? Concord is all about matching certain parts of a sentence so they logically fit together. But there are a ...

Most writers assume they write well. Yet most writers grapple with the reality of writing as a black box. That is, we know that writing works, but we’re a bit fuzzy on what makes readers grasp the ...

A pervy GP who slept with multiple women at his surgery before blaming it on a sex addiction has been struck off the medical register. Thomas Plimmer had regular sex sessions at work when he should ...