There are people in the world who will pay money to bask in my grammar wisdom. Not many, mind you, and they won’t pay much, but that doesn’t change the fact that 15 people enrolled in a seminar I ...

There are people in the world who will pay money to bask in my grammar wisdom. Not many, mind you, and they won’t pay much, but that doesn’t change the fact that 15 people enrolled in a seminar I ...

Use commas for lists, dialogue and complex sentences. The hungry comma chameleon is looking for tasty commas to eat. This literary lunching lizard needs your help to find the hidden commas in each ...

In order to make your writing clear, you need to use commas. As well as using them to separate out key information, or divide up different clauses, commas can also completely change the meaning of a ...

Mike Greiner teaches grammar to high school sophomores in half-hour lessons, inserted between Shakespeare and Italian sonnets. He is an old-school grammarian, one of a defiant few in the Washington ...

When "because" is used to introduce a clause within a sentence, should it be preceded by a comma? You encounter this question often in your writing. The answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. It ...