According to one of many versions of the story, an editor revised a sentence of Churchill's so the final word wasn't a preposition. You know like, "of" or "in" or "at." Here's what Churchill had to ...

For this piece on grammar rules that have changed, Jo Ann Liguori tapped her decades of experience as a copy editor to ensure that all the information is accurate and current.

English usage, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions, is full of contradictions, exceptions, and rules that we probably know implicitly but have probably never really thought about.

Here are nine grammar rules you're probably breaking without even realizing it. As the executive editor at Avenue, a luxury lifestyle magazine in New York City, I see the value of grammar on a ...

People wave these rules around all the time. ... In honor of National Grammar Day, here are four grammar rules that aren’t really rules at all. 1. Don't split infinitives.

Unlike past sages of style, Pinker approaches grammar from a scientific perspective, as a linguist. And that’s what leads him to the unavoidable conclusion that language is never set in stone ...

The answer brings us back to Mom. The idea that you put the other person first may not be a grammar rule. But it’s a pretty well-established etiquette rule.

This school of thought, which ruled the day in the 1950s and ’60s, says we need a Big Book of Grammar No-Nos and that everyone who doesn’t follow those rules is wrong.

Last week, we discussed a few “rules” of grammar and usage, asking whether it was time to let them go. We also asked which “rules” you would keep or jettison. The outpouring, while more like a trickle ...