Pedants, rejoice – National Grammar Day is here! But let’s think carefully about what exactly it is we’re celebrating Yippee (or groan)! It’s National Grammar Day again. You didn’t know? Me neither, ...

I always tell my students that I'm not their language nanny. I'm an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking ...

November 12, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Though some might treat grammar as dead serious business, that's not a particularly fun way to learn it. Brush ...

A weekend Atlantic archive classic: Geoffrey Nunberg's 1983 essay on the changing nature of grammar and its police: The point of traditional grammar was to demonstrate a way of thinking about ...

English isn’t just about rigid rules—it’s about clarity, connection, and sometimes breaking tradition. From ending sentences with prepositions to splitting infinitives, many so-called rules are more ...