The passive voice: despised by teachers, maligned by editors, and misunderstood by almost everyone. For over a century, this grammatical construction has been the bogeyman of English writing, blamed ...

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs seem over. No mention of the lovely proposition either ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Leave it to a scientist to finally explain how to kill off bad writing. In his new ...