Grammar Mistakes

Is The Apostrophe About To Disappear?

Henry Hitchings | Posted 01.01.2012

Henry Hitchings

While this is not to say that the apostrophe should be renounced, there is plenty of evidence that it is on the way out. Like a lot of moderately successful devices, it continues to have fans - not least the people whose names contain apostrophes.

Grammar Pet Peeves: Who, Whom, None Is Or Are?

Robert Lane Greene | Posted 07.22.2011

Robert Lane Greene

Many people think of language as a set of rules; break them, and you're Wrong. But that's not how language works. There are different degrees of wrongness, and there's not a bright line between the degrees.

Calling The Grammar Police!

Posted 05.25.2011

We've all griped about grammar before and our popular series of Grammar Pet Peeves slide shows has shown that Huff Post Books readers are a legion of ...

Grammar Pet Peeves

Posted 05.25.2011

Still, there's always more mischievous mistakes making way into our language and you -- HuffPost contributors and commenters -- have never been shy with sharing.

WATCH: Grammar Pet Peeves

Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna has griped about its misuse before and, frankly, the number of misplaced apostrophe's -- oops, we mean apostrophes -- out there has become dow...

Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna Huffington

Now I really hate to make such a big stink about a little squiggle. But sometimes a small thing like this can have much bigger ramifications.

Grammar Pet Peeves: HuffPost Readers Pick The Worst Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, And Malapropism Mistakes Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Grammar pet peeves seem to get as big a rise out of the HuffPost community as the off the wall comments of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. We've collect...