The difference between 'it' and 'they' may seem obvious but there are similar uses that make it a bit trickier. These two words are very similar, they are both possessive words, but there is a big ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello everyone. My name is Janet. Thank you for coming to my lesson today. The learning intention today ...

You may not have heard the term "reflexive pronoun" but you're probably already using it. Find out more about reflexive pronouns in this lesson. Reflexive pronouns end in -self or -selves. Reflexive ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...

Everyone knows that in the sentence “Jane is washing her”, the pronoun “her” cannot refer back to Jane. Over the last four decades, researchers have established that adults reject the interpretation ...

How does the English language express gender? Did you know that about 25% of languages use masculine-feminine nouns and grammatical gender? These include languages like Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, ...

In her doctoral dissertation, Laura Hekanaho investigates attitudes towards English third person singular pronouns. The use of pronouns is very politicised. Laura Hekanaho takes an in-depth look at ...

We need a hen, that’s what we need. Sweden has one now; can we get one too? Oh, and this one has nothing to do with poultry. In a new updating of the Swedish dictionary that will roll out later this ...