There are people in the world who will pay money to bask in my grammar wisdom. Not many, mind you, and they won’t pay much, but that doesn’t change the fact that 15 people enrolled in a seminar I ...

There are people in the world who will pay money to bask in my grammar wisdom. Not many, mind you, and they won’t pay much, but that doesn’t change the fact that 15 people enrolled in a seminar I ...

There’s no denying that commas are helpful little flecks of punctuation. They allow us to separate written clauses and do good work when especially numerous or complicated groups of things exist in a ...

Mike Greiner teaches grammar to high school sophomores in half-hour lessons, inserted between Shakespeare and Italian sonnets. He is an old-school grammarian, one of a defiant few in the Washington ...

brendan-c on flickr John ate a slice of pepperoni pizza, and drank a bottle of beer. If that sentence doesn't make you involuntarily scowl, then you do not have a proper understanding of commas. Yet ...

An independent clause is a group of words that work by themselves as a sentence. When joining independent clauses, a common mistake is to use a comma or no punctuation. There are several solutions to ...

When "because" is used to introduce a clause within a sentence, should it be preceded by a comma? You encounter this question often in your writing. The answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. It ...