A University of Oregon study have found evidence that people indeed detect and process grammatical errors with no awareness of doing so. Children often pick up grammar rules implicitly through routine ...
Grammatical pronouns are significantly more impaired in speech than lexical ones. Grammatical elements contain secondary information that speakers with limited cognitive resources can omit from their ...
The paomnehal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Typing on a keyboard is a perfect example of how our unconscious mind processes language and functions on autopilot. Are you someone who ‘hunts and pecks’ or do ...
Are you one of those people who can spot a typo anywhere? Is it second nature for you to notice the incorrect use of “your” when it should be “you’re?” Does your blood boil when you see a sentence ...
Lay or lie? It’s a verb choice that many adults get wrong in their own speech and writing. And so do U.S. students nationwide, according to a recent report of the ...
We asked a jury of editors and linguists to judge the most glaring pop culture grammar glitches. But instead of condemning the mistakes, they condemned the rules themselves, turning pop culture from ...
When a school shuts down, student-loan borrowers are often entitled to debt forgiveness. But a new GAO report found issues with communicating that relief to borrowers. For example, notices of ...
This past spring, Microsoft released its list of the top 10 grammar mistakes in the English language. The flubs, culled from the editing tools in the company’s software, were reported in an article at ...