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 ...

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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 ...

We know what an adjective is – it's a word that modifies a noun. What about a word that modifies an adjective? That's an adverb, of course (adverbs also modify verbs and other adverbs)! OK, I'm just ...

Back in the 19th century, some grammar teachers had a problem with the word reliable. It doesn’t properly fit the pattern of adjectives ending with –able. If you can be loved, you are lovable. If you ...

Having been a writer and editor for some years now, I'm often asked for guidance on grammar, sometimes because of something that appeared in the news sections. I only deal with the opinion pages, and ...

When we speak our native language we unconsciously follow certain rules. These rules are different in different languages. For example, if I want to talk about a particular collection of oranges, in ...

I’m a big believer in rules. Rules bring order to what otherwise might be chaos. Rules set expectations. Rules guide human behavior (and sometimes non-human behavior). Heck, rules guide how machines ...