Even book publishing companies defend and use the Oxford comma, with Penguin Random House going ... comma faction like to ...

He is also co-editor (with Graeme Trousdale) of The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar (2013, Oxford University Press ... His works include several authored and edited books (Social Networks and ...

Grammar enthusiasts celebrate “Chicago style” rules, such as whether to put the title of a book in italics (Chicago style says yes, whereas AP style recommends quotation marks), or whether to use a ...

Paul Bailey, the novelist, who has died aged 87, wrote understated, mysterious, quietly beautiful stories of English life, ...

Early one morning, Alan Garner goes to let the hens out. The hens live in a hutch in the garden of Toad Hall in Blackden, ...

Since the early 20th century the Oxford comma has been a point of contention. It’s beyond time to address that it matters for ...

An Oxford University professor of English has said state-educated students struggle to read long novels. According to reports, students are less able to read than previous generations amid a ...

Then, read sections of the book ... grammar puns with the timeless “A (fill in the blank) walks into a bar” format. You can also search for memes on misplaced modifiers, unclear referents and ...

He is the author of several highly praised books on English history ... in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College Oxford, where he did post-graduate research ...

Kudos are in order for Gene Mazo, who had a task much harder than herding cats in producing The Oxford Handbook of American ...

John Rickard leaves an extraordinarily rich archive, a large part of which documents his life as a gay man in Australia, ...

Just as Wideman’s novels and other writings often eschew punctuation, fracture grammar, employ purposeful ... As he’s done in previous books, Wideman — a PEN/Faulkner Prize winner and ...