There’s no there there” was Gertrude Stein’s classic slander of the city of Oakland, Calif. That was the last time a sentence was started successfully with a pronominal, impersonal there. There is an ...

There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: "Funner" isn't a word. Neither is "stupider." Don't start a sentence with a conjunction. Don't end one with a preposition. The ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Here’s a sentence for you to ponder: 1968 was no year for a catching of the breath.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” And now we are ...

Designed as a Word add-in, VanWrite’s Sentence Aerobics tries to help you write clearer, better business documents. Clarity matters in business writing. Business documents are not always fascinating, ...

Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place. There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: ...