My name is Anna Claire and I’m a grammar addict. Today is National Grammar Day. Few things can make journalists, English teachers and other word geeks more excited than the chance to bemoan the sorry ...

What’s the difference between emoticons and emoji? How do I make product names (like the iPhone 7 or 6s) plural? That’s a sample of questions that Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, answers on a ...

Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, she knows ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...