This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

Nouns are essential words in any language. They are used regularly in speaking and writing. Try to put together a couple of sentences without using a noun and you will have problems. We use nouns all ...

Conservatives prefer using nouns, new transatlantic research suggests. The research also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their ...

A new study has found that parent word choice matters when encouraging preschool-age children to help others. Children were significantly more likely to help an experimenter when he or she referred to ...