Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.
WASHINGTON — A self-proclaimed word nerd is on a mission to answer your questions about language and grammar. Author and expert Ellen Jovin took her grammar table to the National Mall to answer ...
English grammar may look easy at first. But we all make silly errors without even realising it. Most of you write or speak English with confidence. But later you realise a small mistake has flipped ...
Tod Kruse has a question about questions. "Today, I decided to ask you about the use of 'right' or 'OK' at the end of a sentence when the speaker or writer is not asking a question, nor expecting a ...
It's probably many years since you did your Year 6 SATs test - so could you answer this grammar question? Most of us studied hard for our exams and tests at school - but how much of the information ...