Although Microsoft Word adjusts the sentence and word spacing automatically when you paste something, it doesn’t adjust the same for the entire paragraphs. It may create problems when you need to edit ...

Understand why we need to put stress on particular words and syllables. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons. Sentence stress and word stress give ...

You probably hardly pay any attention to it, as it is natural to us. You are doing it right now and you are very talented at it. You also do it when you talk on the phone. When you hang out with your ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2003. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. I read there is a ...

Take a guess at what this sentence means – “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” It really has a proper meaning. And it’s part of a whole group of one-word sentences. The ...

Microsoft Word will reportedly flag two spaces after the period as a default grammatical error, in changes that are supposedly rolling out now. But what if you want two spaces after a period? Here’s ...

In a recent study published in Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine Adeen ...

A year ago I wrote an essay for the New York Times titled “The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth.” It argued that authors express their most important ideas or dramatic moments in the shortest sentences.