According to wire and official sources, this is how the U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound went down Sunday: A pair of helicopters take off from Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and ...

I and several readers were communicating recently about the practice of putting “I,” “me” or “my” first in a compound-noun phrase. In fact, two back-to-back emails posed the same question: Isn’t it ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

The début of our new series on language in all its facets: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, spelling, usage, and punctuation. In this episode, Mary Norris talks about commas. at the New Yorker, sometimes ...

Are unpaid royalty payments for oil-and-gas leases subject to simple or compound interest? Simple, the Texas Supreme Court said in Samson Exploration, LLC v. Bordages on June 7, 2024. Samson ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new compound of animal origin, isolated from the porcine brain and completely developed by Bioiberica investigators, has achieved positive results in slowing down ...