My friend Peter Page builds high-rises. He knows that if he were to put a beam in the wrong place, the whole thing could come down. In a much less dramatic, costly and dangerous way, a misplaced word ...

- a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' ...

I got some entertaining responses to my recent Grammar Police column about gerunds, including a few people who thought my gerund comments were acceptable but tore me apart on other grounds, including ...

I was sitting on my back porch, listening to the drumbeat of a summer downpour, when I heard a voice. With the next flash of lightning, I saw a man standing at my door. “Hey, Doc,” he said, “let me in ...

A major quality of good communication is clarity. You should always speak and write in a way that will make the listener or reader to be able to understand your message with little or no hassles.

The New Yorker published an article last November by staff writer Rebecca Mead on the growing popularity of podcasts. It began this way: “In 1936, Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher and cultural ...