President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, as the former Chicago gang leader was set to spend the rest ...

True, shorter sentences aren’t always better. But they usually are. They make the best use of readers’ time and attention, wasting none of it on unnecessary words. But needless words aren’t ...

What the justices decide could affect thousands of prison sentences each year. Federal courts across the country disagree about whether the word, as it is used in a bipartisan 2018 criminal ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

(The word “onomatopoeia” is also used to describe the words themselves, rather than just the process.) Examples of onomatopoeia are the types of words you can imagine inside a colorful bubble ...

Different types of verbs have different functions: A sentence is built up from words. Sometimes words are grouped together in phrases. A phrase acts as a single unit of meaning – for example ...

However, in Dutch sentences, the word order may be reversed: 'Ik heb een documentaire gezien' ('I have a documentary watched'). "To find out whether speakers of different languages build ...

However, in Dutch sentences, the word order may be reversed: "Ik heb een documentaire gezien" ("I have a documentary watched."). "To find out whether speakers of different languages build ...

More than 55,000 people in the U.S. are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to research from The Sentencing Project. Behind bars, they are largely unseen and unheard.