QUITE a few grammar rules are surprisingly badly known by people who make it their business to tell other people how to write. Many journalists apply the Associated Press style book to their prose as ...

It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...

Learn about adjectives - describing words to make things more interesting… tastier, smellier, and better looking. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons.

Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) When we write even a very simple sentence, it's important that it can be read clearly. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) What do you think of this? 'Friends and neighbours, please ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last week, a reader who signed his email “J.” gave us a detailed ...

Actor George Takei, who played the helmsman of the USS Enterprise on "Star Trek," recently posted the above image that depicts a strange example of a perfectly logical English sentence. It contains ...

Build sentences using noun groups. Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. Use your knowledge of adjectives to build and expand ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...