It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Everyone’s on the lookout for their next clever party anecdote for that awkward pause between the cheese course and ...

But is the “rule” worthy of an internet storm – or is it more of a ripple in a teacup? Well, certainly the example is a rather unlikely sentence, and not simply because whittling knives are not in ...

Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral.” The furor centers on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book "The Elements of Eloquence," that adjectives appearing before a noun ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...