For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

The word “if” renders the first clause subordinate, meaning it can’t stand on its own as a complete sentence. There are other types of conjunctions too.

Explaining why requires scary grammatical words I don't like using. But "between" is a preposition, and prepositions come before items called objective pronouns, the item that has something done ...

They found a clear, yet previously undetected, pattern of sounds and puffs of air, which consistently replaced grammatical words in many of the children's utterances.

Generally, grammatical words are very short, they tend to be simple syllables, and they are frequent. They signal grammatical ideas, like definiteness and tense.

Early on they learned many nouns but few verbs or grammatical words. Like the infants, the preschoolers initially produced one word utterances, followed by short telegraphic sentences ("Mommy eat").

Making Word's Grammar Checker Better While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing.

Things become grammatical, Nordlinger notes, when people talk about them a lot. Culture shapes language because what matters to a culture often becomes embedded in its language, sometimes as words ...