Here's a grab bag of gifts for those who want to remove common errors from their writing. Common error No. 1: Misuse of a plural verb. "In the end, neither the ...

Unless the piano sprouted legs or the car changed its own oil, those need to be rewritten. A reader sent me a classic example the other day, from one of the Chronicles publications. The story was ...

I don’t want to get too personal, but I couldn’t help but notice that, ah ... your participle is dangling. You might want to correct that to avoid any embarrassment that could ensue. When you wrote, ...

I got some entertaining responses to my recent Grammar Police column about gerunds, including a few people who thought my gerund comments were acceptable but tore me apart on other grounds, including ...

As the executive editor of Avenue Magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication based in New York City, I see the importance of proper grammar every day. But you don’t have to work in publishing to realize ...