Today’s puzzle highlights essential grammar building blocks by focusing on core parts of speech.
Clear starting-letter hints make it easier to connect longer entries like CONJUNCTION and ADJECTIVE.
The spangram ties the entire theme together, reinforcing how sentence components work as a unified system.
The beginning of the week presents a challenge for puzzlers, which is inspired by grammar. Today's NYT Strands puzzle, titled "Grammatically Speaking," is going to let the solvers know the main components of the language. The grid covers the whole range of verbs and linking words, but tests the user's knowledge in a way that remains amusing and gratifying.
The theme of today's NYT Strands is parts of sentences, and it is accentuating the words that are the basis of the communication done in writing and speaking. Each reply represents a distinctive part of speech and provides a concise yet strong insight into the grammar fundamentals. The spangram links these fragments, disclosing the entire relation among the words in the grid.
Here are today’s hints, complete with starting letters and word lengths:
CO – 11 letters: A word used to connect clauses or phrases.
AD – 9 letters: A descriptive word that modifies a noun.
AR – 7 letters: A small word that precedes a noun and specifies it.
NO – 4 letters: A subject word representing a person, place, or thing.
VE – 4 letters: A word that expresses action or state of being.
The full list of grammar-related answers includes:
CONJUNCTION
ADJECTIVE
ARTICLE
NOUN
VERB
Words are the basic components of sentences - from linking phrases to describing nouns and showing actions.
PARTS OF SPEECH
The spangram unites all the individual answers under a single grammatical category. It reveals the connection between each word and reinforces the theme, showing how different types of words work together to form meaningful sentences.
Start the grid with the longest or the most unusual words as anchors.
The theme is the main consideration; it helps with the selection of difficult entries.
Try to identify answers by looking for familiar prefixes, suffixes, or common word clusters.
Overlapping letters often reveal smaller or less obvious words.
The NYT Strands puzzle of today unites wordplay and grammar basics, giving a delightful and educational trial. Its solution makes one’s vocabulary sharper, one’s knowledge of sentence structure stronger, and one’s pattern recognition skill greater. Engagement with such puzzles every day allows both language skills and logical thinking to be strengthened.