A simple sentence is built from the minimum of a subject and a main verb. It can be very short in length (but doesn't have to be): 'The angry dog barks.' It puts across one simple idea: 'Rebecca sang.

Let me explain this with a sentence, "I am a Japanese." "I" is WATASHI, and "a Japanese" is NIHON-JIN. So, "I'm a Japanese" is WATASHI WA NIHON-JIN DESU. To make a sentence ending with DESU into a ...

Confused yet? Keep reading to find out what these strange-sounding but perfectly grammatical garden path sentences are saying. Besides sounding like a rejected Ernest Hemingway title, this deceptive ...

Previous research has suggested that including negative words in the middle of a sentence can throw off our brains and make it more difficult to understand. A new study reveals that the way negative ...