Grammar nerds: It’s your day, National Grammar Day, all day Thursday. For those of us who struggled in high school, groaning if the English teacher mentioned the word “essay,” take heart. It is almost ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

A weekend Atlantic archive classic: Geoffrey Nunberg's 1983 essay on the changing nature of grammar and its police: The point of traditional grammar was to demonstrate a way of thinking about ...

I always tell my students that I'm not their language nanny. I'm an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking ...

Tue, August 28, 2012 Published on Aug. 28, 2012 Published on 2012-08-28T05:00:00+07:00 t was early in the morning Indonesian time and almost iftar time in Madison when one of my colleagues asked me ...