Mark Gatiss stars in a series he created as a London bookseller in 1946 with a talent for solving mysteries.

For over two decades, my mother Caroline has been editing my column in this newspaper. But sadly, she has made her last ...

The mandate to never split an infinitive has also been linked to Latin influence. An infinitive is the base form of a verb, ...

The new documentary "Rebel with a Clause" opens Thursday at Digital Gym Cinema. The film follows Ellen Jovin as she takes her pop-up grammar table on a road trip across 50 states, navigating dangling ...

For a couple of decades, Ellen Jovin co-ran a communication company with her husband to help executives better express themselves. Then, in 2018, outside a subway station in New York, she set up a ...

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THE first element of good style is clearness, and this may or may not be combined with literary elegance. It is usual to regard a split infinitive as a sign of indifference to pure English, yet this ...

DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...