What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've probably been getting wrong in our English classrooms for years?

Once upon a time, there were no grammar rules and writers were free to experiment with punctuation as they saw fit. It wasn’t until the late 1700s that grammar books became popular (and ...

That can be a mistake. People who think they know grammar rules off the top of their heads may have instead memorized mythical rules that get passed down from generation to generation.

Go ahead and split that infinitive! Here are some of the grammar rules that have changed with the times. Are you keeping up as grammar rules change? Attention, grammar police! As a longtime copy ...

Though some might treat grammar as dead serious business, that's not a particularly fun way to learn it. Brush up on your grammar skills with these light-hearted but educational resources.

English usage, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions, is full of contradictions, exceptions, and rules that we probably know implicitly but have probably never really thought ...

How can we tell the difference between a sound rule of English and a made-up shibboleth? How do the nonsense rules catch on?

To those of us who speak English as our first tongue, these nonsensical grammar conventions come as second nature—and some rules are so innate that they rarely get taught in school.

WHERE DO THE rules of grammar come from? Even those who care about the subject rarely, if ever, ask that question. The rules are simply the rules, passed down in good grammar books. But who wrote ...