TALLASSEE, Ala. (WSFA) - Heather Ernest is celebrating 25 years in the classroom. She started teaching in her hometown in Tallassee in 1999 — a career and a passion inspired by her mother. “My mother ...

It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

"We have met the enemy and he is us." So said Pogo, the titular character in a comic strip syndicated locally in The Salt Lake Tribune during the 1960s and 1970s. "We have met the enemy and he is us." ...

Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, she knows ...

WEBSTER, Wis. — The way we view the printed word hasn't changed since the Middle Ages. It's always been a left justified wall of text, filling a page. A Twin Cities start-up is changing that in an ...

Diagramming sentences can be an incredibly useful tool for understanding the structure and organization of a sentence. By breaking down each element of the sentence, it becomes easier to see how words ...

It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than "and." But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, ...

WASHINGTON — It’s hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.” But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme ...

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Regardless of whether you agree with Chief Justice John Roberts’ ultimate point, his sentences are clear. Contrast his legal writing with School Board member Dave Donley’s June 1 commentary on Inlet ...