Do you struggle to correctly use pronouns? If so, you may understandably be wary of the ACT English section. This portion of the ACT contains 75 questions, which you must answer in 45 minutes. More ...

The difference between 'it' and 'they' may seem obvious but there are similar uses that make it a bit trickier. These two words are very similar, they are both possessive words, but there is a big ...

FARGO - Grammar can make many of us feel tense. (Pun intended.) But in the last couple of years, the anxiety over grammar is fueled not by where to put an Oxford comma or two but at the very heart of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...

In her doctoral dissertation, Laura Hekanaho investigates attitudes towards English third person singular pronouns. The use of pronouns is very politicised. Laura Hekanaho takes an in-depth look at ...

Correction & clarification: A prior version of this column misspelled the name of Dee Tum-Monge of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Today a good number of emails end with the sender’s name and contact ...