Creators of a software program called Grammarly recently conducted a study of the grammar used in LinkedIn member profiles. They found that people with fewer grammar errors in their profiles ascended ...

People whinge about “the decline of grammar” when they are merely talking about minor solecisms of spelling and punctuation, or a change in some convention they learned in childhood. They could adopt ...

Charles Duncombe, who runs multiple ecommerce sites in England, says that “Spelling mistakes ‘cost millions’ in lost online sales.” When one of the best ways to filter spam is the quality of writing ...

Strict about the proper use of "you're" and "your" in text messages (and really, we have keyboards now, so you can't blame T9 shortcuts)? Whisper under your breath when someone uses "less" when they ...

Today is National Grammar Day, a day writers and editors appreciate very, very much. Correct grammar and spelling has decidedly been thrown into the metaphorical trash bin, thanks to the subsequent ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

Be careful talking and writing. The grammar police are out. In the past week, this newspaper has published four letters to the editor in which the writers were furious about instances of what they ...

Supreme Court justices puzzled Monday over whether Congress meant “or” when it passed a law saying “and” in a case that could determine if some federal inmates qualify for a potential reduction in ...

I have a distinguished colleague who unceasingly tries to persuade me to see that my attempts at descriptive grammar really have a prescriptive subtext. We were both participants in a workshop on the ...