I've already talked about how some phrases function as splitters—how what goes into either side must look the same. One of the phrases I...

I'm not a huge fan of diagramming sentences. I think so much of how we put sentences together is innate, and it doesn't really serve much...

I just got myself an iPhone 7. And after I had already paid for the phone, I got hit with an unpleasant development: you can't plug the...

You ever read a sentence and, once you get to the end, you can't remember where you started? They can make you crazy as a reader, but for...

This blog is called “Beyond the Oxford Comma.” I call it that because I’m not going to waste time arguing one side or the other of this...