Grammar columnist June Casagrande outlines a few concepts that come up in bad writing and how to avoid them. A Word, Please: Here are some tangible ways to fix bad sentences - Los Angeles Times ...

And so is that so-called grammar rule about ending sentences with prepositions. If that previous sentence bugs you, by the way, you’ve bought into another myth.

For prisoners who benefited from shortened sentences, parole boards seem much more effective in taking corrective measures. The 13 days knocked off a prisoner’s sentence for each month that the ...

Grown-ups do sometimes use bad sentence fragments — clusters of words meant to be complete sentences but that don’t quite qualify. They can be truly awful. So here’s a refresher.

To the Editor: I was delighted to read Mikita Brottman’s “Spelling Matters” (The Chronicle Review, January 20). It is never easy to point out those errors one sees in a résumé, either when ...

What makes sentences go bad? Here are three common pitfalls, as exemplified by actual sentences from newspapers and magazines: Wordiness — Patching together too many modifying phrases and ...

It isn't always obvious what constitutes good and bad grammar. The 17th Century poet John Dryden is said to have invented the notion that you can't end a sentence with a preposition, which has led ...

It's Wrong To Use Two Spaces Between Sentences, Microsoft Word Says. April 27, 2020 / 5:11 PM EDT / CBS Boston ... when typists spaced twice to more clearly define the end of a sentence.