An English teacher living in Jerusalem wrote to ask me to resolve a dispute about a test question. Someone had set a correct/incorrect test on the preterite (the simple past, e.g. took) vs. the ...

Professor Stefan Collini of the University of Cambridge says in a recent review article in Prospect Magazine: For some time now, it has been customary to label those who write about grammar and usage ...

The Times’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, invites readers to correct grammatical errors in recent New York Times articles. Even professional writers and editors make mistakes in grammar and ...

People who care about grammar care about it a lot. And for everyone who cares about grammar (and even some people who don’t), there are certain misspellings, wrong usages, and grammatical errors that ...

Mastering the appropriate usage of words in various contexts can be a significant challenge for individuals learning English as a second language. Given the widespread use of English for international ...

Common English Grammar Mistakes: English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to grammar. From confusing “its” and “it’s” to ...

Editing begins while you are still working on your first draft. It has to do more with revising the logistics of the paper than grammar and surface-level errors. Proofreading takes place when editing ...