If you ever feel bad about your grammar or embarrassed you don’t know more, here’s a story that might make you feel better. Recently, I reread something I wrote years ago about “good things come to he ...

One of the most interesting questions I’ve gotten recently was from a colleague who had come across the phrase “one of the living writers who really matter.” The use of “matter” instead of “matters” ...

I just realized that yesterday I promised to talk about how prepositions get thrown into the mix. It's pretty easy really. Let's start out today's discussion with the difference between who and whom.

Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place. There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: "Funner" isn't a word. Neither is "stupider." Don't start a sentence with a conjunction. Don't end one with a preposition. The ...

The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from Merriam-Webster: "It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with," the dictionary publisher said in a post ...