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 ...
On the Tiger Woods post, darby1044 wrote: In American English grammar, you would not put commas around Elin since she is, we assume, his only wife. Not sure which American English you grew up speaking ...