No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen. In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or “Italian-Americans” — it was easily overlooked, an innocuous piece of ...

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“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers. Ellen Jovin, wearing a “Grammar Is Groovy” T-shirt, is the star of ...

A study published in March suggests what we've all long suspected: People who are obsessed with grammar aren't as nice as the rest of us. For the study, scientists Julie Boland and Robin Queen from ...

“I’ll dress warm,” I wrote to friends recently in a group email about a get-together on the patio of a local café. What happened next will sound familiar to every careful user of the English language: ...

Maybe it says something about the quality of my other columns or our fatigue with weighty subjects, but nothing I write seems to draw more responses these days than grammar. I’ve already received ...

Have you ever written “everyday” when what you really mean is “every day?” It’s an everyday error that you might notice every day. Do you see the difference ...

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