If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

What is the difference between grammar and syntax, and why is it important to get it right in the English language? Professor Roly Sussex explains.

This little web app colors text so that each part of speech is a different hue—just like text editors that highlight the syntax of different coding languages.

Questions are marked in English syntax by moving the first auxiliary verb in the clause to the beginning of the clause, or, more specifically, the features of the auxiliary verb are copied upwards.

John Franklin Wiredu, A Reconsideration of Grammatical Categorization in English, Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2019), pp. 87-108 ...

But none of these works well when new English learners have not received explicit instruction in the largely missing ingredient: Syntax. Patrick Herrera ([email protected])is an adjunct faculty member ...

The goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, we applied the factorial definition of island effects ...

So what makes the English barrier a tough one to hurdle? We cannot blame antiquated teaching methods, shy students, and a shortage of native instructors and other facilities any more. English ...

When he completed his monumental Old English Syntax in 1982, towards the end of his long career as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon, he introduced it with the words, "I have to state categorically my ...

President George W. Bush's departures from standard English syntax are well known; Tarzan's departures are more extreme, and Yoda's even more so (“Already know you that which you need”); yet ...