So we've done participles and gerunds, and because @glamAtude asked whether we could talk about appositives, here we go: An appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun and gives more ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, we talked about setting a parenthetical description off with commas in the grammatical phenomenon ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Commas are wonderful tools. They tell a reader to pause, as this one did. They can also tell a reader that some ...

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THE problem with most bad writing is that it's often so general and lacking in texture and depth. The people, places, or things used as subjects seem to exist only in two-dimensional space, as in a ...

Several years back, I was roundly criticized for using the one-word “sometime” and the restrictive noun phrase “my wife Leonor” in this lead sentence of a column of mine: “Sometime ago, my wife Leonor ...