Grammar rules are often overlooked in the daily flow of English conversation. Stepping back and thinking about your message can help you use the appropriate grammar when speaking or writing. Here are ...

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), ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...

Niceties in language can produce exquisite precision and clarity. Consider this passage from the short story “Dimension” by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro, who died this month at 92: “She ...

When we speak our native language we unconsciously follow certain rules. These rules are different in different languages. For example, if I want to talk about a particular collection of oranges, in ...

When I started writing this column in the early aughts, people would say it’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. They said it to me — every time I did it. This idea was one of many myths that ...

Google today announced that its new machine learning-powered grammar checker is now live in Google Docs for G Suite users. The company first introduced this new feature at Cloud Next 2018, but it ...

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 ...