Writing with proper grammar is one of the easiest ways to establish credibility. For example, when was the last time you trusted the guy who opened his email with “Hello please sirs and madam” and ...

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 ...

Learn the 10 Common Grammar Mistakes to Avoid in the Workplace to improve professional communication, boost credibility, and ...

We all have our little obsessions, those events, people or things that provoke a passionate reaction in us, whether it's reasonable or not. For some it might be an unwavering devotion to a sports team ...

The English language is a perplexing enterprise. Sadly, rarely do you hear it spoken or written correctly during these days of mass communication. In fact you may find errors in this column. But for a ...

In the year 1712, the essayist Jonathan Swift put forth quite a radical proposal for "Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining" the English tongue. According to Swift, Latin had arrived at "a great ...

The old joke goes this way. Two school teachers were discussing academics. One, a math teacher, asked the other, a language arts teacher, “Which is correct? Two and two are four or two and two is four ...