Language has rules. For people who aren’t too confident in their writing and grammar skills, the rules can be very useful, helping determine things like which verb form to use and where to put a ...

The English language has a rich storehouse of words accumulated through different innovative methods. Adding prefixes to words, already in use, is one such method. A prefix is a type of affix attached ...

Don’t read this column. Really. It’s not like the other articles out there that impart knowledge. Instead, this one could leave you feeling like you know less than you did before you started reading.

Today’s column concerns two familiar punctuation marks: the hyphen (-) and the dash (—). While most readers readily recognize these marks, far fewer are aware of the various ways in which they could ...

Prefixes and suffixes are additions to words that change them into different words. Prefixes are added to the beginning and suffixes are added to the end of the word. Examples of a prefix include ‘Pre ...