Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the “myth” that ...

Conjunctions are words which help link ideas in a sentence. They can join together words, parts of sentences and even whole sentences. They help to make writing flow. Jackie ate an ice cream. She ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

I'm going back and forth on this one. Would it be incorrect to say that "Usability and precision are paramount"? It seems like the word could go either way, describing one thing as being of primary ...

Conjunctions are words which help link ideas in a sentence. They can join together words, parts of sentences and even whole sentences. They help to make writing flow. Jackie ate an ice cream. She ...