Trudeau, who has been prime minister since 2015... Any post mentioned without reference to the post-holder should be in lower case - e.g. The prime minister will be out of the country for several days ...

“People don’t know why they get so upset about language,” David Crystal told me recently, over Skype from his home in Wales. “ ‘Potato’s,’ with an apostrophe ‘S,’ ” he offered, as an example of the ...

As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...

Online writing has changed completely during recent years. Blog posts, emails, reports, assignments, and website pages now ...

The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and ...