In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

Good, lively prose. Good, lively prose judiciously uses a mix of sentence patterns, effortlessly adds detail to the basic statements to make them sound intelligent, spontaneous, and convincing ...

Introduction. By Gerald P. Berent, Ph.D. Department of Research National Technical Institute of the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology. English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 299 No. 6 (December 2008) doi:10. ...