I’m a big believer in rules. Rules bring order to what otherwise might be chaos. Rules set expectations. Rules guide human behavior (and sometimes non-human behavior). Heck, rules guide how machines ...

I look forward to a lifetime of commitment to a completely unnecessary and rigid observance of grammar, spelling and ...

If you want to appear polished and intelligent, a great way to do that is to make sure you’re using proper grammar. Grammar seems like a small thing, but it can leave a big impression. There are many ...

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Today, some pungent responses from readers ready to accept ungrammatical usages. “I tend to follow the rules of grammar,” said Maren Swanson, a retired lawyer in Burnsville, “but one I hate and tend ...

Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns to show a relation to them. English learners find ...

We asked a jury of editors and linguists to judge the most glaring pop culture grammar glitches. But instead of condemning the mistakes, they condemned the rules themselves, turning pop culture from ...

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About a decade ago, I read a blog written by a linguistics student who proclaimed, “Prescriptivism must die!!!” He was talking about the school of thought that believes that textbooks and other ...

Who among us has not been confidently click-clacking away on their keyboard, stopped mid-sentence, looked around and asked the air, “Wait, is it who or whom?” Correct English grammar can be tricky ...