Ellen Jovin is the author of “Rebel With a Clause: Tales and Tips From a Roving Grammarian” and cofounder of Syntaxis, a communication-skills consulting firm.

Use the present continuous tense to say that you are doing something now which is ongoing, eg I am watching, he is reading. In English, the present participle ends in ‘ing’, eg saying, listening, ...

NCR Vatican correspondent Justin McLellan sat down with Cardinal Fabio Baggio to discuss global migration trends and the ...

The goal of this package is to provide a simple, idiomatic and elegant way of defining parsers in Go. Participle's method of defining grammars should be familiar to any Go programmer who has used the ...

Many of us oldsters remember being taught in school that there are eight parts of speech, but I find that, when I try to remember what I was taught, I usually come up with nine.  When I look at ...

Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day: an occasion, the NGD website tells us, to “celebrate good grammar in both our written and spoken communication.” Since I am a linguist and get my quotidian ...

Soufflé was so widely accepted that, in Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery (1845), a recipe for soufflé was included as just ...

We live in a world that prizes speed and efficiency, but the best type of reading is slow. Here’s how to hit the brakes ...

Today's NYT Strands is live for Sunday, March 8, 2026 (Puzzle #735)..