So, Jessica wanted to know, is that “were” correct? Or should it be “was”? There’s a one-word key to finding the answer: subjunctive. That’s the term for the grammar dynamic that ...

What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've probably been getting wrong in our English classrooms for years? To understand why ...

Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty has come to the ... If English is your second language, which word pairs were the trickiest to commit to memory?

"I knew people were curious about (language), and I spent ... A pediatrician at Stanford University and "self-admitted grammar nerd," Wong loved "Rebel With a Clause" so much that she found ...

Both sets of pupils took writing tests at the beginning of the study and at the end, after 10 weeks of grammar lessons. These tests included a narrative writing test, where they were given a topic ...

Soon, they were joined by Miranda Schwartz, a copy editor who was wearing a shirt that read “I’M SILENTLY CORRECTING YOUR GRAMMAR” — notably, the message lacked a punctuation mark at the end.