Today, some pungent responses from readers ready to accept ungrammatical usages. “I tend to follow the rules of grammar,” said Maren Swanson, a retired lawyer in Burnsville, “but one I hate and tend ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been cited for breaking traditional grammar rules you will rejoice at the publication of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Coauthor and ...

For years, grammar nerds have been wagging their finger at students and writers who dare break one of their most sacred rules: ending a sentence with a preposition. But last week, Merriam-Webster, one ...

Niceties in language can produce exquisite precision and clarity. Consider this passage from the short story “Dimension” by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro, who died this month at 92: “She ...

An attack of conscience forces me to take up the subject of grammar and usage again this week. After writing last Sunday about several markedly stupid common blunders - the forming of plurals by ...