Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Some grammar-checking programs will highlight something and warn you that you have a “squinting modifier ...

Battling cancer is hard enough for a child. But having to also battle a sibling is simply too much. Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald ...

I got some entertaining responses to my recent Grammar Police column about gerunds, including a few people who thought my gerund comments were acceptable but tore me apart on other grounds, including ...

In case you haven’t noticed, newspaper headlines are brimming with sensationalism. Has a wave of lurid crimes and bizarre events swept our fair cities? Nope. In fact, the culprit is none other than ...

Questions and comments that I receive usually come from individuals and sometimes couples. This one came from an entire English class: "We are ninth-graders in Mrs. Buie's English class at East ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

- a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' ...