Word sequence puzzles constitute fascinating (and fun) experiments in associative thinking—that is, experiments in how we make semantic, conceptual, or formal connections among the words in a set.

We will begin with a discussion of the uses of repeated action words and sequence words, those simple grammar devices for giving greater cohesion and clarity to writing. TO give us a much better ...

Sometime the basic SVO English word order becomes altered when an SVO sentence is interrupted by another structure within the sentence. For example, when a relative clause occurs immediately after the ...