Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what the Wall Street Journal wrote on Wednesday, citing an “epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace” that has spread with the help of ...

In today's highly competitive and global business landscape, being able to communicate quickly and effectively gives employees and entire organizations an edge over less articulate competitors. Having ...

And I’m not alone. Even the Wall Street Journal agrees. His article drew 3,013 comments (ironically, many of them taking him to task for ending a sentence with a preposition and referring to “company” ...

HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

I always tell my students that I'm not their language nanny. I'm an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...