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 ...
Grammar Laboratory, a new tool developed by an ASL instructor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, uses the live feedback capabilities of AI to personalize ...
The Tory minister got the question wrong during the BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme amid an ongoing row over SATs tests for Year Two students. Would you pass a grammar test for Key Stage 2 ...
More than a couple of times, readers I’ve met have told me they’re petrified of making a grammar mistake in front of me. Some decide they won’t talk to me at all because I might detect something ...