This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

Gail Hershenzon, a substitute teacher from Novi, Mich., walked into a first-grade classroom one morning and discovered this item on her daily schedule: “10 a.m. — bathroom the children.” While Gail ...

Build sentences using noun groups. Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. Use your knowledge of adjectives to build and expand ...

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Conservatives prefer using nouns, new transatlantic research suggests. The research also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their ...

A new study has found that parent word choice matters when encouraging preschool-age children to help others. Children were significantly more likely to help an experimenter when he or she referred to ...