“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t,” wrote Lynne Truss in her book Eats, Shoots and Leaves, “and I’ll just say this: never get between those people when drink has been ...

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary].

The Oxford comma. Not just the title of a Vampire Weekend song, it’s the pesky piece of extraneous grammar that sits before the conjunction in a list. For example, in the phrase “apples, oranges, and ...

In school, I was taught about conjunctions (e.g. or and and) and the role they play in sentence structure – they are linking words. They do what they say on the tin: con-(i.e. with) and -junction (i.e ...

A key goal of any newspaper should be communication. There is a reason writers stray from terms that may be unfamiliar to the common reader and attempt to make the ideas they present straightforward.

A Variety headline posted on social media drew some laughs recently. “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise.” “He’s gay AND Tom Cruise?” one observer mused. “He ...