Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball.

My husband and I enjoy your column and particularly relate to your grammar topics. As an English teacher, he has shared some of those columns with his students. Kevin, my husband’s brother, collects ...

June Casagrande's easy New Year's resolution trick for choosing between "and I" and " and me" when communicating with others.

It's no secret that text messaging has changed the way we communicate, but it has also changed the meaning of sentences, punctuation, and grammar. So, we want to know, does proper grammar matter to ...

“Proper” English is full of stumbling blocks, and chief among them is the sentence that ends in a preposition. For example, this question: Are sentences that end in prepositions really something to be ...

Correct Grammar is important, no matter you are talking or writing something. Regardless of the language, grammar is the foundation for communication. The better the grammar, the easier it is to ...

The plaque commemorating pitcher Greg Maddux’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame this week testifies that he is the “only hurler with 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts and less than 1,000 walks.” If ...

Let’s not look at grammar as a cold, harsh mistress. She can also be a fun, kooky aunt. Here are some tricks you can do to make strange sounding sentences that are still grammatical. 1. One morning I ...

I LOVED, loved Joan Wickersham’s column, “Navigating the grammatical thicket” (Op-ed, Feb. 22). I will never forget learning grammar lessons. In the 1960s, I was a student at the Silver Bluff ...