The old joke goes this way. Two school teachers were discussing academics. One, a math teacher, asked the other, a language arts teacher, “Which is correct? Two and two are four or two and two is four ...
Have you celebrated National Grammar Day yet? No? Well, it's no surprise. We've been getting bad advice for years when it comes to language, says one newspaperman. Anne Dujmovic was a senior editor at ...
Regarding Joan Webber’s recent letter on participles and commas, wherein she claims that people misuse “existential,” she is plainly mistaken (”Prickly participles? Speaking proper English is ...