Do you find yourself constantly spotting the difference between your and you’re? How about its and it’s? What about the difference between plural and possessive? Test your knowledge on National ...

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In my last column, we should have straightened out any confusion concerning the use of “its” and “it’s,” as well as the application of other contractions. I was surprised at the number of people who ...

It’s summer, and so Tim Burke at Swarthmore College is talking less about theory and more about things like Ratatouille (he loved it) and video games. After weeks of trying to track one down, he has ...

Several states have now implemented policies restricting basic writers' access to four-year universities, and the students most likely to be affected are African American, Latino, and nonnative ...

Why do we say a baseball player "flied" out and not "flew" out? Of course we all know that the past tense and past participle of the verb "fly," is "flew," although I have to admit I don't really have ...

Grammar: it’s everywhere. And, as soon as someone identifies himself as an expert, you can almost always safely assume he’s going to judge you anytime you end a sentence with a preposition. I’m no ...