Q: I work in a library. Some of my co-workers use poor grammar, and I don’t know if or how I should correct their word usage. Any suggestions? A: Yes, make it clear that your concerns are eccentric ...

I'd like to tell you that reading this column will make you feel better, and that might not just be wishful thinking. It might, however, offer the equivalent of patting you on the hand and assuring ...

If your a card-carrying member of the Grammer Police and the sound of a dangling participle makes your skin crawl, their is no need to worry – its natural. A study by professors at the University of ...

Have you ever wondered why so many reporters don’t know that “criterion” is singular and “criteria” is plural? How many times have you read something like this in a magazine: “The student who brings a ...

Now don’t get scared. We won't start drilling you on “who” vs. “whom,” conjugations, and gerunds. You can relax. We’ll take a much more practical approach, and we won’t use any strange words. Promise.

Taylor Swift has some choice words for The Princeton Review. And those words are not ones found on the SAT college exam. Princeton cited the singer’s lyrics as an example of bad grammar on one of its ...

Does hearing bad grammar make you physically cringe? It turns out out that it may well induce a medical phenomenon in the human body. Scientists in the United Kingdom seem to have pinpointed a ...

Experts have found that bad grammar can cause a physical reaction - even increasing the heart rate. Some of the worst offending examples are mixing up tenses within a sentence, confusing singular and ...