The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

It’s almost the season for holiday cards, hostess gifts, and two of the sneakiest word pairs in the English language. This ...

Five years ago, I wrote a column titled, “In Defense of Grammar: The First in a Series.” It was a light-hearted, but pointed, ...

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 ...

Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure. Grammar allows us to structure our sentences and even our thoughts and ideas. Some experts think that ...

Welcome to ‘English Bites’, the show where we chew on grammar rules and make them easy to swallow! I’m your host, [Name], and today we’re tackling the backbone of the English language: Grammar.

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...