“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

All writers make mistakes, certainly including me. It's better to spot your own instead of having a reader do it. You'll find a few examples, listed below, that challenge you to correct them. One of ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...