Students stress over grades and primp communication skills all in hopes of preparing for the future, but staying up-to-date on grammar rules as they evolve can be a difficult task. Christopher Rogers, ...

Linguists are always taken aback by the overwhelmingly negative and sometimes virulently expressed reaction they get when stating something that every linguist believes (and linguists do not agree on ...

Grammar Guru is back at it. After a bit of a hiatus, we’ve returned with a lesson on the apostrophe mix-ups we see every ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Leave it to a scientist to finally explain how to kill off bad writing. In his new ...

If you’ve ever been cited for breaking traditional grammar rules you will rejoice at the publication of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Coauthor and ...

Once upon a time, there were no grammar rules and writers were free to experiment with punctuation as they saw fit. It wasn’t until the late 1700s that grammar books became popular (and lucrative), ...

Tough one. I was taught this rule way back and have tried to follow it ever since but in reality, I forgot at what numerical range it became okay to just type out in numbers versus letters. Maybe in ...

Happy World Emoji Day! Yes, this is actually a thing that people are celebrating, so today is a good day to expand your knowledge of these clever little pictograms. Any language, no matter how basic, ...