As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use.

Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

If you want to improve your grammar, you may find it helpful to analyze how sentences are structured. FoxType does the work for you, visually breaking down your sentences so you can see how each word ...