Ellen Jovin, an English language fanatic, was sitting in her New York apartment this summer feeling like it was too hot to do anything fun outside. So, she came up with an idea: a grammar table — ...

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“What’s a gerund?” one of them asked. Charmed, Jovin explained that a gerund is a verb that has become a noun after an “ing” has been added to it. Run is a verb, she told them, but running is a gerund ...

From comma crises to capitalization conundrums, Ellen Jovin has the answers, and she wants to help. Jovin brought her traveling, pop-up Grammar Table to Charleston on Thursday morning to answer ...

Linguist and "Rebel Without a Clause" author Ellen Jovin at the Grammar Table. Alaska grammar nerds will be heartened to know that a self-described roving grammarian is in the state dispensing advice.

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

WASHINGTON — A self-proclaimed word nerd is on a mission to answer your questions about language and grammar. Author and expert Ellen Jovin took her grammar table to the National Mall to answer ...

I’ve sometimes idly wondered why so many people feel so strongly about grammar and the particular ways we write and speak. Think of the Twitter wars over the Oxford comma and Facebook arguments over ...