So we've done participles and gerunds, and because @glamAtude asked whether we could talk about appositives, here we go: An appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun and gives more ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, we talked about setting a parenthetical description off with commas in the grammatical phenomenon known as an ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Commas are wonderful tools. They tell a reader to pause, as this one did. They can also tell a reader that some information ...

Among the noble fights and feats of activism undertaken on our campus, few are as impassioned as the mission to engage one’s peers in debate over issues of social justice. From casual conversations ...