Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.

While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well into later life.

Flint provides inline writing feedback based on teacher-configured rubrics and guardrails. You set the boundaries for what AI can and can’t do, which prevents the tool from writing for students.

The movie follows language expert Ellen Jovin as she takes her makeshift “Grammar Table” on an exhilarating journey across ...

Now that we’re all out of English class, you might be asking yourself: do I still have to follow all of those strict grammar rules? The answer is “no.” We’re splitting infinitives, running amok with ...

At Pueblo Elementary, a dual-language school in Scottsdale, Ariz., students, including English learners, learn core subjects in both English and Spanish. The schedule looks like this: Students in ...

Where do you stand on the Oxford comma? Do you struggle to remember when to choose “who” or “whom,” “affect” or “effect,” and “lay” or “lie”? Does hearing someone end a sentence with a preposition ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

When we speak our native language we unconsciously follow certain rules. These rules are different in different languages. For example, if I want to talk about a particular collection of oranges, in ...

Understanding a simple-looking sentence such as “I read this article yesterday” actually requires some sophisticated conceptual computation: a subject (“I”) performed an action (“read”) on an object ( ...

Rutvik Desai receives funding from NIH/NIDCD. These remarkable capabilities may make it seem like generative artificial intelligence systems are poised to take over human jobs and have a major impact ...