THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.

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Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

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.

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the broad umbrella of leadership, and everything under it. Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what ...