Gail Hershenzon, a substitute teacher from Novi, Mich., walked into a first-grade classroom one morning and discovered this item on her daily schedule: “10 a.m. — bathroom the children.” While Gail ...

While this blog’s primary purpose is the discussion of the role of the newspaper and journalism in general, today I delve into an essential aspect of that endeavor — good writing. Writers are always ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

Q: While completing a summer camp evaluation survey, I was not sure whether to use a singular or plural verb for this sentence: “The staff (was/were) very friendly throughout the session.” Which is ...

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

Every few weeks, I get another missive from a reader angry about the common use of certain nouns as verbs. The most frequent irritant is "to impact", which annoys conservatives, but people have also ...

Conservatives prefer using nouns, new transatlantic research suggests. The research also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their ...

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