WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

This paper aims to propose a possible methodological path in practices with literary texts in foreign language classes. Firstly, the idea of interpreting the literary text and the role of literature ...

The USA TODAY Network is launching a series on the Latino community in the USA called Hecho en USA, or made in America. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the USA are American citizens, but media ...

This passage tweeted by editor Matthew Anderson comes from the book The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase. It outlines the rules of adjective order when preceding a noun.

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a new study. Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a study published ...

West Bengal Board Class 11 English B Syllabus 2024-25: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) is the body which has been entrusted with the administration of education in the ...

The Maharashtra government has decided to offer English as an optional subject to students of classes 11-12. As per draft curriculum prepared by the State Council for Education, Research and Training ...

SCERT draft curriculum in Maharashtra reclassifies English as a non-compulsory subject for Classes XI and XII, with stakeholders' input sought. Curriculum offers 8 subjects with a choice of 17 Indian ...

SINGAPORE: Every parent's nightmare was once a mother’s reality. The woman had not only learnt her young daughter was a victim of sexual assault. She also had to testify in court against the alleged ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...