This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 6 Grammar Rules You Can Totally Break. Now that we're all out of ...

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

Microsoft Word is a very useful software when it comes to writing long paragraphs with styling. Almost every writer uses Word on his/her computer. People use Microsoft Word over Notepad because – ...

Know someone who is heading back to school this fall? Here are some grammar tips I compiled for you, my dear (not-school-aged) reader, to pass along to that special student in your life. Don’t write ...

All learners of English encounter problem points on their journey towards mastering the language. A number of readers have sent in queries about English grammar, words and phrases, idioms, style. Here ...

This past spring, Microsoft released its list of the top 10 grammar mistakes in the English language. The flubs, culled from the editing tools in the company’s software, were reported in an article at ...

The Anglo Saxons didn’t say ‘the’, they said ‘sê’ – as in pass me ‘sê’ bread. Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ancestor for ‘the’. But some time over the 1100s it entered our ...

The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. ‘The’. It’s omnipresent; we can’t imagine English without it. But it’s not much to look at. It isn’t ...