Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what the Wall Street Journal wrote on Wednesday, citing an “epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace” that has spread with the help of ...

I came across a rather sad post on a message board the other day. “I feel insecure because someone made fun of my less than perfect grammar. What’s the best way to improve it?” This post led me to ...

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One of the reasons that online discussions of grammar are either sterile or acrimonious is that some participants are not really interested in grammar, but rather come to the discussion seeking ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split infinitives, apostrophe’s (sic, sic, sic), and Oxford commas (sick!). Yes, in the case ...