Say it ain't so! Bad grammar? Sure but that type of writing is paying off for two companies. Grammarly, the digital writing assistant, has raised another $90 million from private investors. The ...
In response to my column highlighting amusing errors, a reader questioned my emphasis on proper grammar. "I enjoy reading your column," he wrote, "and I do try to write succinctly. However, in this ...
Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...
I used to love Grammarly, the helpful browser plugin that analyzes what you type and calls out your poor spelling and grammar choices—for you to fix or ignore, depending on what kind of a writer you ...
Budgerigars are grammar pedants too. Just like us, these parrots use the grammatical structure of unfamiliar phrases to work out what they mean. There is evidence that some birds pay attention to the ...