Bruce Leonard has been an editor, managing editor, city editor, associate editor, copy editor, contributing editor or reporter/photographer for dozens of publications. Smartphones, tablets, computers ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

The brain basis of grammatical comprehension is one of the most difficult topics to study in modern cognitive neuroscience. Traditionally, one of the most popular and useful ways to explore this is ...

Various models for categorizing grammatical units exist in the literature. Particularly nebulous, however, are terminologies for conceptualizing categories at the level of the clause. For example, the ...

The paomnehal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Typing on a keyboard is a perfect example of how our unconscious mind processes language and functions on autopilot. Are you someone who ‘hunts and pecks’ or do ...