HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

Wednesday is National Grammar Day, a time to celebrate good writing, strong syntax and proper punctuation. Grammar nerds likely cringed at that last sentence. It all depends on your feelings about the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The little word “and,” we probably all know, is a conjunction. It connects things: “She is tall and thin” means she is ...

Sex. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to discuss the fact that this sentence you’re reading is not necessarily a run-on sentence because run-on sentences are not simply sentences that run on ...

A grammar enthusiast with strong convictions about the necessity of the Oxford comma has gone viral on Tik Tok and reignited a long and contentious debate about whether or not you really need to use ...

Braveheart did it, Adele does it. While I did it then, splicing two sentences into one, snubbing the semicolon to mash two time-zones, my heresy enacted by that intermediary comma. Grammarians know ...

A viral TikTok about the use of the Oxford comma has been viewed more than 854,000 times on Twitter and sparked debate among grammarians on the site. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Guidelines for grammar and style are not meant to intimidate or to uphold certain ways of writing over others. Rather, they are meant to assure students of the basic conventions of academic writing in ...