Grammar

Mitt Romney Will Protect WHAT?!

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Video, Typos, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Typo, Mitt Romney Campaign Website, Mitt Romney Fail, Grammar, Mitt Romney Guns, Comedy News

Mitt Romney may be pro-guns, but an egregious error on his campaign website indicates that he's anti-copyediting. First noticed by Facebook user Ha...

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Comma Sense, or How I Got into a Fight Over 2 Punctuation Marks

Danny Licht | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: High School Journalism, AP Style, Grammar, Commas, High-School-English, Teen News
Danny Licht

Losing the points didn't bother me. It was grammar for the sake of grammar! Despite the sound and fury, I was masochistically ecstatic to be fighting in the name of beneficial English conventions.

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Becoming Goops

Sarah Alban | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: California, Lol, The Midwest, Grammar, Respect, Tweens, Hannah Montana, Fashion, Syria, Lolcats, Manners, College News
Sarah Alban

God knows how long I took forcing these words into a coherent blog. But for the love of everything you hold dear: Please speak English. Speak any language. Speak anything longer than three letters. Speak anything more sophisticated than a LOLcat caption.

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The Man From DARE

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Madison Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Dictionary, English Language, Grammar, American Regional English, Books News
Doug Bradley

Fred Cassidy didn't talk too much about DARE in those days. I think he was still a little disappointed that he didn't finish Volume One in time for the nation's bicentennial.

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Is This The Real Source Of Shakespeare's Genius?

Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Dr Jonathan Hope Shakespeare, Grammar, Shakespeare, Jonathan Hope, Dr Jonathan Hope, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Grammar, Culture News

Read a line from a William Shakespeare play and notice the cadence with which you speak. All of those breaths and pauses from the commas and semicolon...

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Are Words Appreciated Anymore?

Richard Laermer | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Death of English, Writing, Human Interaction, Attention Span Disorder, Laermer.com, Listening Difficulties, Bad Communications, Email Madness, Pet Peeves, Grammar, Business News
Richard Laermer

These days people communicate in funny ways. I often wonder if anyone is paying attention to the words they write down (forget what they say -- we eit...

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Help Me Understand...

John Joss | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Language, Speech, Pronunciation, Behavior, Speaking, Writing, Winston Churchill, Conversation, Grammar, Syntax, Caroline Kennedy, Sixty Minutes, Lesley Stahl, Media News
John Joss

Our inability to express ourselves with clarity, simplicity and vigor is the death of effective human affairs. The light at the end of the tunnel is that we, if we care enough to speak and write properly, will shine.

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PICTURE: Grammar Is Important

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Funny Commentors, Funny Comments, Funny Facebook Statuses, Video, Facebook Grammar, Typos, Facebook Statuses, Facebook Typos, Grammar, Urlesque, Facebook, Comedy News

We've all been there: You come up with a joke and think to yourself, "This would be a great Facebook status!" So you type it in, post it for your ...

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WATCH: Hilarious, Ridiculous 'Elements Of Style' Rap

Zoë Triska | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Grammar, Elements of Style, Elements of Style Rap, Grammar Rules, Strunk and White, Lit Vid, Lit Vids, Books News
Zoë Triska

I decided to bring just one book, to act as a symbol of my monumental move (as a former Literature major, everything is symbolic to me). The one I chose was the newer edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style with beautiful illustrations by Maira Kalman.

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Your Grammar Is Not Married to Your Gramper

Ellen Siminoff | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: James Joyce, Grammar, Mark Twain, Huck Finn, Anthony Burgess, Education News
Ellen Siminoff

Poor grammar is ugly. To any lover of the English language who values a correctly constructed sentence, it can signify a lack of intelligence or effort. Are many of us limiting ourselves in terms of potential success by u'sing apo'strophes every time we see an 's?

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Why Plural Pronouns Make Me Angry

the-communicator.org | EVA HATTIE L. SCHUELER | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: High School Opinion, Pronouns, Grammar, The Communicator, High School Newspaper, High School News, Feminism, LGBT Youth, High School News

This is a teen-written article from Community High School newspaper in Ann Arbor, MI. As the world which we live in changes, so does the language whic...

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Is The Apostrophe About To Disappear?

Henry Hitchings | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Apostrophes, Grammar Annoyances, Grammar Pet Peeves, Grammar, Apostrophe, Grammar Mistakes, Apostrophe Misuse, Books News
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.

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The Power of Spanglish to Make us Laugh

Mariela Dabbah | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Funny, Spanglish, Grammar, Cultura, Bilingualism, Latino Politics, Bilingual Mistakes, Latino Voices News
Mariela Dabbah

Regardless of where you stand on the Spanglish debate, for those of us who live in both languages there comes a time when you will inevitably put your foot in your mouth. The truth is that if you only speak one language you save yourself all of this trouble. But then again, you don't get all the benefits of being multilingual and multicultural.

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PHOTOS: 8 Grammar Mistakes You're Probably Making

Sue Sommer | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Grammar, Grammar Usage, Grammar Errors, Bad Grammar, Common Grammar Mistakes, Books News
Sue Sommer

The Bugaboo Review is a lighthearted examination of usage, grammar, and spelling mistakes, the bugaboos of the English language.

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(The Dangerous World of) Parentheses

Jeff Klima | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Funny, Dimensions, Humor, Writing, Books, Parentheses, Punctuation, Education, Portals, Hilarious, Josef Mengele, Ribald, Science Fiction, Learning, Grammar, Comedy News
Jeff Klima

Parentheses seem ordinary, don't they? Boring, even. So why the hell would I waste a perfectly good column discussing such a mundane topic? Well, I'm glad you asked, because, as it turns out, parentheses are pure evil.

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PHOTOS: Cliches You Wish Were Banned From Use

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Bad Cliches, Cliche Use, Writing, Bad Writing, Grammar, Banning Cliches, Banned Cliches, Cliches, Books News

Wake up and smell the coffee. Stop and smell the roses. The grass is always greener on the other side. We've all heard them a million times, and t...

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WATCH: Your Grammar Sucks

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Jack, Video, Your Grammar Sucks, Parodies, Comments, Parody, The One, Youtube, Spelling, Grammar, Urlesque, Spelling Errors, Youtube Comments, Comedy News

Jack is taking a stand against the horrible spelling and grammar displayed by most YouTube commenters by doing a dramatic reading of some of his favor...

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PHOTOS Grammar Pet Peeves: 4th of July Edition

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: 4th of July, Independence Day 2011, Grammar Rules, 4th of July 2011, Independence Day, Grammar Pet Peeves, Grammar, Fourth of July, Fourth of July 2011, Slidepollajax, Books News

It's 4th of July weekend (pretty much) and we are thinking about the same things as you are: hotdogs, hamburgers, beach, pool, sun and, most of all, r...

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Oxford Comma Commotion Leaves Punctuation Snobs Distraught

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Oxford University Press, Punctuation Rules, Grammar Usage, Punctuation Use, Oxford University, Grammar, Punctuation, Oxford Comma, Books News

LONDON — A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions ...

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Matt Sledge

Subletting On Craigslist? Try Grammar

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Ebay, Online Spelling, Online Reviews, Craigslist, New York City Apartments, Spelling, Grammar, NY Real Estate, Robert Lane Greene, Panos Ipeirotis, English Language, New York News

NEW YORK -- The desperate, last-minute hustle to rent a room in New York City often ends, for both landlords and tenants, on Craigslist. The site stre...

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Apostrophe Catastrophe, or the Consolations of the Internet

John Brown | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Apostrophe, College Students Grammar, Punctuation Rules, Grammar Rules, Apostrophes, Grammar, Grammar College Students, Apostrophe Rules, College News
John Brown

Jefferson's lack of concern regarding the use of the apostrophe, as a Founding Father, suggests that there is a tradition in the United States regarding the tyrannical imposition of a "regulated" apostrophe.

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

Robert Lane Greene | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Grammar Pet Peeves, You Are What You Speak, Grammar, Dialect, English Language Rules, Bad Grammar, Grammar Mistakes, Books News
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.

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Grammar Pet Peeves: The Difference Between Good English And Correct English

Robert Lane Greene | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Proper English, Grammar, Grammar Usage, Literally, Correct English, Lindsey Graham, Darpa, English Language, Books News
Robert Lane Greene

Everyone has a language peeve. Mine is "literally," a great word with no close synonym. When used as a mere intensifier or to mean simply "It felt as though..." it has almost no kick at all.

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In Defense Of Improper Grammar

More Intelligent Life | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Grammar Police, Grammar, Grammar Nazis, Improper Grammar, American Grammar, Bad Grammar, Books News

I've long been the office language nerd. This isn't a terribly distinguished position. Every office has at least one person who proof-reads with extra...

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Grammar Pet Peeves: The Most Cringe Worthy Mistakes Yet (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Grammar Pet Peeves, Grammar Annoyances, Grammar Fails, To and Too, Grammar, Bad Grammar, Poor Grammar, You're and Your, Books News

We admit that grammar is not always simple. After all, there are some complicated rules in the English language. The following mistakes, however, ...

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