IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) ...

With President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons to more than 1,500 charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, whatever was remaining of their sentences is now forgiven. The total ...

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 ...

A smart TV is an internet-connected television that offers a range of online features, such as on-demand content from apps like BBC iPlayer, ITVX and All 4, access to streaming services like Netflix, ...

Some people prefer the term “omnisexual” to “pansexual.” That's because the term pansexuality implies that attraction to people has nothing to do with gender. In contrast, people who ...

Linguistics professor Christopher Strelluf, of the University of Warwick, has revealed it includes 'uptalk', which is a rising intonation on declarative sentences and 'vocal fry' – a low ...

Google TV is one of the best streaming platforms out there, running on everything from smart TVs to the best streaming devices, and Google TV Streamer. This web-connected OS is built to make ...

What Does It Mean to Be Trans? Transgender is a general term that describes people whose gender identity, or their internal sense of being male, female, or something else, does not match the sex ...

It notes men and women speak differently, with women much more likely to use uptalk – a rise in tonal pitch at the end of a declarative sentence. Analyst downgrades and share-price falls are ...