I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the “myth” that ...

I'm going back and forth on this one. Would it be incorrect to say that "Usability and precision are paramount"? It seems like the word could go either way, describing one thing as being of primary ...

DRIVER ONE: We’re never going to get up there, we need a conjunction. NARRATOR: Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Oh, you ...