“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers. Ellen Jovin, wearing a “Grammar Is Groovy” T-shirt, is the star of ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. From “The Grammar of Fantasy.”Credit...Matthew Forsythe Supported by By Mac ...

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 ...

“I’ll dress warm,” I wrote to friends recently in a group email about a get-together on the patio of a local café. What happened next will sound familiar to every careful user of the English language: ...

In this week’s writing chat, we talked with Grammar Girl, aka Mignon Fogarty, about the creative connections between writing and grammar. Topics included: Which grammar rules you can break, and why.

A study published in March suggests what we've all long suspected: People who are obsessed with grammar aren't as nice as the rest of us. For the study, scientists Julie Boland and Robin Queen from ...

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 ...

Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is ...

Sometimes, I can answer a reader's letter with a simple "yes" or "no." But what fun would that be? "Mr. Baumann, can anything be done to stop writers from using the phrase 'the likes of'?" wrote David ...