As many of us prepare to return to the classroom for the fall semester, it seems like a good time to talk about grammar and grading. Occasionally I poll students about how many of them have had their ...

Are you one of those people who can spot a typo anywhere? Is it second nature for you to notice the incorrect use of “your” when it should be “you’re?” Does your blood boil when you see a sentence ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Proper grammar seems to be a thing of the past — why stress about tiny technicalities, right? Wrong. You should be a grammar stickler for ...

I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...

Most word processing programs will go through your work and at least perform a spellcheck, looking for misspelled words that you do not want appearing on your final document. Others look for mistakes ...

In response to my column highlighting amusing errors, a reader questioned my emphasis on proper grammar. "I enjoy reading your column," he wrote, "and I do try to write succinctly. However, in this ...