Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

Do they need a human agent?

Knight. Through. Rewarded. Adventure. Explosion. Ok, so I know Spectator readers are of above-average intelligence, and so hardly a representative sample, but I’m going to stick my neck on the line an...

British Humor.

Are you sat down or sitting down while reading this? Have you got or do you have a preference for one form over the other? English has a number of ways of

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A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages te...

The answer is six thousand years old

Evidence suggests that 60,000 years ago, humans possessed the mental plasticity to plan complex visual systems.

On the way out?

​This is very clear and actually helpful.

Test your festive grammar skills with our Christmas challenge. Spot all 10 hidden mistakes and see if you're as sharp as you think.

A noun phrase is defined as a syntactic unit with a noun as its Head, which may have dependents.

Response to the Becky Francis Review of the National Curriculum

The following attested example poses some interesting syntactic questions:

I went last month to an event called English Grammar Day, hosted by University College London (UCL), the University of Oxford and the British Library. This annual event has been held ten times, but I ...

Inspired by the passionate response to the semicolon’s supposed decline, this quiz invites you to test – and perhaps rediscover – your grasp of English grammar, from the basics to the beautifully obsc...

The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

For the time being it’s dominant – but as the Romans could tell you, nothing lasts for ever

How do we define the notion of ‘Subject’ in grammar?

Other foreign language additions include alamak, a cry of outrage in Singapore and Malaysia, and tapau, a Chinese word for takeaway

Yes, but in a restricted way

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.