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Depending on where you fall on the “correcting other people’s grammar” scale (unless its part of your job), this news will either hit you with euphoria or like a ton of sad bricks that don’t know how ...
Everyone who has texted or spent even a tiny amount of time on popular social media sites knows how the internet has seemingly lowered the standards of spelling and grammar across the board. Random ...
HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...
Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...
It seems us Americans ain't talkin' too good, don't write worth a lick and are worser with e-mails. Our grammar, punctuation and spelling are/is abysmal. And corporate America is saying, STOP. When ...
In response to my column highlighting amusing errors, a reader questioned my emphasis on proper grammar. "I enjoy reading your column," he wrote, "and I do try to write succinctly. However, in this ...
For students, there are a plethora of tips, tricks, and programs they can use to ensure their essays are in top shape before turning them in to the professor. However, one college student named Marley ...
Rob Drummond receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Project grant RPG-2014-059 - 'Expressing inner-city youth identity through multicultural urban British English'. Language pedants who take ...
Cambridge University Press & Assessment proudly commemorates the 40th anniversary of English Grammar in Use, the world's best-selling English grammar series. First published in 1985, EnglishGrammar in ...