It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading Some of the country’s most eminent linguists came together for ...

We call the verbs that end with MASU "the MASU-form of verbs." We use the MASU-form, when we speak politely. To make it a negative, we change MASU to MASEN. So, YOMIMASU (to read) becomes YOMIMASEN.

Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

How do you avoid grammar snafus on the web? You need to learn basic capitalization rules for online writing. Keep this list of rules close just in case. You sit down to write an amazing post for your ...

I’M going to be very careful writing this week’s column. I’m trying not to make any grammatical mistakes. Even though I’ve published millions of words, I’m certain some errors will slip through ...

Good grammar lessons help children become better writers, and you don’t need to know what a fronted adverbial is to help One unanticipated consequence of school closures and remote learning has been a ...

In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...