Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

Mobile phone use and the popularity of social networks are often blamed for students who don't possess a good understanding of grammar. However, can we truly blame technology for poor writing skills, ...

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the broad umbrella of leadership, and everything under it. Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what ...

Lay or lie? It’s a verb choice that many adults get wrong in their own speech and writing. And so do U.S. students nationwide, according to a recent report of the ...

HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

And I’m not alone. Even the Wall Street Journal agrees. His article drew 3,013 comments (ironically, many of them taking him to task for ending a sentence with a preposition and referring to “company” ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Now don’t get scared. We won’t start drilling you on “who” vs. “whom,” conjugations, and gerunds. You can relax. We’ll take a much more ...

You may have heard about the marvel that is the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, more commonly referred to as GPT-3. GPT-3 is a “large language” artificial intelligence algorithm that has achieved ...