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It’s long past time to have a look at that verbs entry in the AP Stylebook, because, and I say this out of a spirit of concern and disinterested helpfulness, it can’t stand up to examination. The ...

According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Two schools of thought seem to exist on the placement of adverbs with compound verbs. One is easy: just stick it in front of the ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

The March issue of The Walrus, Canada’s leading general-interest magazine, features an ad for a speech by a blond, smiling young man named Eric Termuende. His talk is entitled “Connecting the Dots on ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...