The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar — which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas. Nonnative ...

The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

GUWAHATI: The Nagaland University, a central university, is collaborating with the Nagaland government to develop written grammar for the 18 recognised languages of the state. While Naga languages ...

Chivalry, serfdom, industrial activity and the races have all yielded evocative horse-linked phrases. Surprises include hands-down, ride roughshod and Big Apple Take a horse to water, horse-trading, ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

How can you use natural pauses in English? Pauses and the flow of speech are very important for sounding natural when speaking. By pause we mean a complete gap between words, or just a slowing down of ...

Welcome to the new Survey of English Usage website, which is now part of the UCL English Department site within the Arts and Humanities faculty. This site is under construction. We hope you find what ...

Abstract: Recent development of variety and volume of information circulating in the Internet has prompted the emergence of a new paradigm in information extraction, namely the Open Information ...