Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

Sentence structure: To construct meaningful sentences, understanding sentence structure is crucial. Every sentence comprises a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main entity of a sentence, ...

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 ...

Forget lists of words and punctuation marks. If you really want to know if a text was written by AI, look for this particular sentence structure. For as long as people have been using AI to churn out ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

The hierarchical structure of sentences appears to be less important in human sentence processing than previously assumed, according to a new study of readers' eye movements. Readers seem to pay ...