A few weeks ago I wrote on the grand old rule about not ending sentences with prepositions, which is, quite simply, a long-lived hoax we’d best relegate to history. In that light, I’d like to ...

Notice that this student used not one, not two, but eight perfectly grammatical sentences to say that their grammar is bad — so bad that it’s standing in the way of pursuing dreams in a scientific ...

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 ...

Some of us never forget the first sentence we conjugated*. Others of us are, like, LOL, WTF? Conjumugation? Unfortunately, it appears the LOLers are encroaching, ruining everything that is good and ...

Relationships are not rocket science, but they are like a foreign language. And like foreign languages, they need to be learnt. Swedish children learn English from their first year of school. They ...