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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Two schools of thought seem to exist on the placement of adverbs with compound verbs. One is easy: just stick ...

According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

English grammar is in a state of continual evolution, manifesting a dynamic interplay between historical conventions and emerging usage. This evolution is evidenced by shifts in syntactic structures, ...