Merriam-Webster shocked some English nerds by debunking a preposition "rule." Here's where it came from in the first place. There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English class: ...

dire à to say to/to tell Elle a dit à son frère de ne pas s’inquiéter. – She told her brother not to worry. demander à to ask L’élève a demandé au prof s’il y avait des devoirs. – The pupil asked the ...

6 Grammar Rules You Can Totally Break disjuncts frankly clearly luckily hopefully Hopefully dictionaries validated ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is "No sentence fragments!" Actually, that should be "Don't use sentence ...

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...