Let’s face it, grammar is more important for some people than for others. An ambulance driver probably has more important things to worry about than whether to hyphenate adverbs ending in “ly.” (FYI: ...

In these days of wars and terrorism and serious, frightening occurrences at home and around the world, this may seem very trivial, and perhaps it is. You may think it's just the nit-picking of an old ...

Possessive apostrophes show who or what owns something. The apostrophe goes in a different place depending on whether the owner is singular (one) or plural (more than one). Be careful with the word ...

The apostrophe is out to get you. That innocent-looking little punctuation mark you learned about in elementary school has been plotting against you all your life. It’s not like the hyphen, which is ...

Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of National Grammar Day and the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, tells host Rachel Martin about what she has referred to as an "apostrophe catastrophe." The ...

Last year, grammatical tragedy struck in the heart of England when Birmingham City Council decreed that apostrophes were to be forever banished from public addresses. To the horror of purists and ...