#linguistics

English relies on word order to communicate meaning. This presents us with a big problem though - how can we express meanings which other languages place into extensive case and inflection systems? English cleverly solves this by use of the operator and in some cases even introducing a dummy operator. An operator is an

In linguistics, we love to classify and sort. A favourite kind of classification is the "parts of speech". In this classification, we are trying to sort each word into a group to better understand speech.However, we instantaneously hit a little hitch here: what is a word? Unfortunately for us, that's one of t

Perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of English grammar is the use of the word whom. Many people (including me) will correct the use of who to whom where appropriate; but many people (excluding me) can actually explain when whom is correct. In this blog, I shall totally demystify whom forever. Not only that, but w

You may know English as a SVO language; subject, verb, object. While SVO certainly does characterise the language; the situation is much more complex than that. In fact, there are seven basic sentence structures, listed here:We also use the following acronyms within this blogWe will dig into the definitions of each of