Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we talked about setting a parenthetical description off with commas in the grammatical phenomenon known as an ...

On the Tiger Woods post, darby1044 wrote: In American English grammar, you would not put commas around Elin since she is, we assume, his only wife. Not sure which American English you grew up speaking ...

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So we've done participles and gerunds, and because @glamAtude asked whether we could talk about appositives, here we go: An appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun and gives more ...

THE problem with most bad writing is that it's often so general and lacking in texture and depth. The people, places, or things used as subjects seem to exist only in two-dimensional space, as in a ...