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Mental Floss on MSN.com · Feb 12, 2025

6 Grammar Rules You Can Break

it’s just too awkward to put all your prepositions in the “correct” places. “Don’t end a sentence with a preposition” is one of English grammar’s most infamous rules—but it turns ...

BBC · Jun 8, 2023

Sentence grammar: Sentence structure

I am looking forward to seeing you next week." And so I have to make sure that it's going to be grammatically correct. The first sentence has a verb and a subject and so the verb is 'want' and the ...

Scientific American · 11d

Language Differences Control Your Brain’s Sentence-Prediction Habits

So we seem to be quite flexible in that you might process one language differently from another simply because they have different properties.” In Dutch language structure, verbs sometimes come near the end of a sentence rather than immediately after the subject like they do in English,

BBC · Mar 15, 2023

Grammar - Edexcel Word classes

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or ...

Smithsonian Magazine · Jan 17, 2008

Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar Is Wrong

Anglican bishop Robert Lowth popularized the prohibition against ending a sentence with a preposition in his 1762 book, A Short Introduction to English Grammar; while Henry Alford, a dean of ...

SBS · Nov 6, 2023

MiniPod: Sentence Stress and Word Stress | Bad English Made Better

The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons. Sentence stress and word ... and when you repeat what you hear with the correct stress on syllables, it makes ...