Idioms are words or phrases that are not meant to be understood literally. For example, if someone says they have 'cold feet', that doesn't mean their toes are actually cold. Rather, it means they are ...

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

Improve your English by learning to avoid common prepositional errors. This guide explains mistakes like 'in the bus' vs 'on the bus' and 'discuss about'.

Did you know the idiom 'dark horse' originated in horse racing to describe the horse which was least expected to win but emerged as the winner? This idiom is used to describe a person or entity that ...

APART from extraposition, or deferring the subject to the tail end of a clause or sentence, there's still another sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve ...

Abstract: Prepositional phrase attachment is a major disambiguation problem when it's about parsing natural language, for many languages. In this paper a low resources policy is proposed using ...

It is a peculiar hubris of California's legislators that they often presume to extend the application of the state's laws beyond its legal borders. Corporations Code Section 2115, for example, ...