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Writers, like restaurant patrons and grocery store customers, hold secret meetings to decide when to act as a herd: A slow restaurant suddenly gets busy? That’s no accident. It’s a conspiracy. Ditto ...

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 ...

Have you ever written “everyday” when what you really mean is “every day?” It’s an everyday error that you might notice every day. Do you see the difference ...

John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...

Despite what you might have seen in the movies, you don’t actually need to worry about the living dead, that is unless you’re trying to write well. According to Geoffrey Pullum, a linguistics ...

Good grammar may have came and went. Maybe you've winced at the decline of the past participle. Or folks writing and saying "he had sank" and "she would have went." Perhaps it was the singer Gotye ...