Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

Misplaced apostrophes’, passive voice being used, and sentence fragments. We’ve all experienced the frustration of witnessing infuriating grammar faux pas. I’ve often found myself internally rolling ...

The other day, I got pulled over by the Grammar Police. They ticketed me for Reckless Punctuation, Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement, Splitting My Infinitives, Terminal Prepositions, Verb Tense Disorder, ...

Back on a hot day in the summer of 2019, author and communications teacher Ellen Jovin sat at a folding table she'd set up outside South Bend's Chocolate Café on South Michigan Street. As Jovin ...

Linguist and "Rebel Without a Clause" author Ellen Jovin at the Grammar Table. Alaska grammar nerds will be heartened to know that a self-described roving grammarian is in the state dispensing advice.

Now the Oxford English Dictionary is at it. In my previous column, I reported that “gaslighting” has been named the Word of the Year 2022 by the dictionary aficionados at Merriam-Webster. Each year, ...

In 2016, under a similar title, this column urged the Supreme Court of New Jersey to require all bar candidates to demonstrate some mastery of English. The subtitle was "Grammar as a Measure of ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...