Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Some grammar-checking programs will highlight something and warn you that you have a “squinting modifier ...

Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like "doubly transitive post-prepositional verb" and you might never take an interest in the ...

Modifiers are elements of enhancing the meaning and beauty of constructions. However, when modifiers are not properly handled, they constitute fertile grounds for ambiguity and miscommunication.

As we saw recently in this column, some language terms are fun to learn. Squinting modifier. Dummy operator. Eggcorn. Larfs all around. Others, not so much. Grammar is famous for its unfriendly jargon ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like “doubly transitive post-prepositional verb” and you might never take an interest in the ...