Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like "doubly transitive post-prepositional verb" and you might never take an interest in the ...

Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like “doubly transitive post-prepositional verb” and you might never take an interest in the ...

When I was a kid, I thought people struggled to “make En’s meat.” I didn’t know who En was — someone from the Bible, most likely — but I knew he was a carnivore who ran up big grocery bills. I was ...

Well it's time now for another installment in our regular series of conversations with Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty! She's a superhero of the English language. Well it's time now for another ...

I have been wondering how grammar terms received their names. Some of the origins are baffling. A noun, that part of speech that names people, places and things, comes from the Latin word "nomen," ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, we discussed a few “rules” of grammar and usage, asking whether it was time to let them go. We ...

The 1950s were a wild time. Everything was in black and white, there weren’t any footprints on the moon and no one had even heard of Taylor Swift. Can you imagine what that must have been like?

A movement to make Spanish grammar less centered on male terms has gained broad adherence, including from President Alberto Fernández. By Daniel Politi BUENOS AIRES — Three days into Argentina’s ...