The goal of the Object Disambiguation using Locative Prepositions project is to improve human-robot interaction by developing models for how humans use prepositional phrases to identify objects in a ...

Winston Churchill famously rubbished this grammatical convention by demonstrating the tortuous English which could result - "This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put." Simon Blake, ...

To connect to or connect with? On television or in television? To admit someone to hospital or to admit someone in hospital? What is the difference between ‘old for his years’ and ‘old in years’?

The Local's French grammar tips. Image: Patick Fore_Meizhi Lang via Unsplash In the French language, prepositions can be confusing to use - here's how to figure out when to use 'en', as well as ...

Today I am bringing you another of my occasional lessons in our ongoing educational series, "English as a Third, Fourth or Fifth Language". This time round, we are going to look at the way the English ...

In our six-part discussion of the various ways of showing the six basic logical relationships, we focused on the two major classes of connectives that perform that function: the conjunctions and the ...

AN English teacher in Iran, Farhad H., recently sent me e-mail asking this very interesting question about preposition usage: “I often have difficulty when it comes to the difference between the ...