What are some sentence and grammar hacks that can make people more effective writers? This question was originally answered on Quora by Janet Fitch.

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice By Geoffrey K. Pullum April 17, 2009 April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe.

Now another book enters the fray: “The Glamour of Grammar,” by Roy Peter Clark, which in its tone and content is very much a manual for the 21st century.

Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. Anne Curzan’s book ‘Says Who?’ goes too far in renouncing the fundamental rules of language usage ...

Harvard cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker explores some of the most common myths and the mistakes they produce in his book " The Sense of Style," which is like a modern version of ...

T he sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving this fake grammar rule a particular distinction: Its ...

Columnist June Casagrande shares some of the "zombie rules" listed in a book about grammar called "Bad Advice." ...

Anglican bishop Robert Lowth popularized the prohibition against ending a sentence with a preposition in his 1762 book, A Short Introduction to English Grammar; while Henry Alford, a dean of ...