I received an email recently from a reader named Fred who’s unhappy about the way that language and writing standards have gone down the tubes since his school days in 1950s and ‘60s. Here’s an ...

It’s a perfectly logical thing to do: You need an answer to a grammar question, so you fire off an email to your friendly neighborhood grammar columnist. After all, you may not have anywhere else to ...

Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, she knows ...

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Active voice keeps readers interested and engaged. You can use Microsoft Word features to find passive verbs, and even entire passive sentences, while you compose your documents. Configure the Word ...

It’s a peculiar observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for instance, have notably straightforward structures. On the other hand, ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...