ABSTRACT: Using the self-paced reading, this paper investigated the role of verbs or constructions when Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners try to understand an English sentence.

Subject-Verb Agreement is one of the most fundamental concepts in English grammar. It ensures that the subject (the person or thing performing the action) and the verb (the action or state of being) ...

You’re probably familiar with nouns as the words that name people, places, and things. But did you know that nouns don’t just label things; they also serve particular functions in a sentence?

School of Foreign Languages, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China Determiner phrases (DPs), an overarching term, can be classified into two determiner types: referential ...

David Schizer, the former Dean of the Columbia University School of Law, and I have just today posted a manuscript on SSRN at: It will be published in the Florida Law Review (2025). We argue that the ...

This study explored sentence processing in two typologically distinct languages: Korean, a verb-final language, and Tongan, a verb-initial language. The first experiment revealed that in Korean, ...

The first step in finding the direct object is to identify the main verb in the sentence. Verbs describe actions, states, or occurrences and serve as the heart of any sentence. Step 2: Determine the ...