These so-called garden path sentences will make you rip your hair out. Why are they so frustrating? You’ll see. Think you have a good grasp of English? Good. Let’s play a little game. Below are seven ...

It was a few months ago in 2025 when Ranveer Allahabadia, on Samay Raina's India Got Latent show passed crude comments, which received mass outrage. Multiple FIRs were filed against him, a content ...

A pangram is a sentence that includes every letter of the alphabet at least once. You’ve most likely heard of the popular pangram involving the quick brown fox—it’s a go-to for teaching typing and ...

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. This year more than usual, those of you who wrote to me asked where you should find hope. Where you ...

The way you start when you talk affects if you will be ignored. Distressing situations offer potential for major happiness. Sound paradoxical? It is, and it's true. Everyone loves a happy ending to ...

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As middle and high school students engage with complex texts, their diverse reading skills become increasingly apparent. I have found it challenging and time-consuming to scaffold comprehension for ...

Abstract: With the emergence of parallel computing systems and distributed time-sensitive applications, it is urgent to provide statistical guarantees for age of information (AoI) in wireless ...

The esteemed novelist and essayist offers an ambitious but narrow bid to rekindle religion as a source of grounding in the 21st century The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was an out, loud, ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 and ...