In a culture characterized less by the printed word than by YouTube videos, it's easy to cast off grammar as if it were a quaint vestige of some prim and proper era — a form of good manners or ...

Ellen Jovin has been to all 50 states, setting up a table to talk about grammar, ... One thing Jovin does that's reminiscent of an old schoolteacher, though, is diagramming sentences.

The authors won’t be hurt by these critical remarks. They are long dead. William Strunk was a professor of English at Cornell about a hundred years ago, and E.B. White, later the much-admired ...