Students often make the mistake of squaring a negative that's not in parentheses. What will happen is that they look at it and say, "Okay, well, I've got this negative 3 squared. So that obviously ...

To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...

Many English grammar advice sites on the web are so dire that it almost seems rude to link to them. I don’t want to fail in my duty to clarify things by deconstructing them; yet it seems cruel to ...