Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns to show a relation to them. English learners find ...

You should of known better! Actually, you should HAVE known better about these common grammar pet peeves that drive people crazy. Grammar errors are easy to miss, and they’re often habitual. However, ...

We know what an adjective is – it's a word that modifies a noun. What about a word that modifies an adjective? That's an adverb, of course (adverbs also modify verbs and other adverbs)! OK, I'm just ...

Today, some pungent responses from readers ready to accept ungrammatical usages. “I tend to follow the rules of grammar,” said Maren Swanson, a retired lawyer in Burnsville, “but one I hate and tend ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...

When I started writing this column in the early aughts, people would say it’s wrong to end a sentence with a preposition. They said it to me — every time I did it. This idea was one of many myths that ...