Just as word stress helps your audience understand the meaning of the word, sentence stress helps your listener understand the meaning of the sentence. In a sentence, the words that carry the meaning ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable grammatical territory. A Word, Please: 'Because' and the reason it could wreck a ...

So, that’s sentence stress … when the main word or one word is stressed in a sentence. But now it’s time to zoom in on actual words with a thing called syllable stress . And that refers to ...

“A preposition is a word — and almost always a very small, very common word — that shows direction (to in ‘a letter to you’), location (at in ‘at the door’), or time (by in ‘by ...

It has been called the new "um" or "like," but linguist Geoff Nunberg says starting sentences with "so" isn't a new trend. People have been doing it for years. We're just noticing it more now.

Beginnings and endings count more than middles. Consider this sentence: "I have never felt more frustrated." The intensity of that statement can be heightened by moving one word to the beginning ...