Grammar Guru is starting the year off strong with a spirited list (rant?) of cringe-worthy or just-plain-wrong words and ...

Sometimes words are grouped together in phrases. A phrase acts as a single unit of meaning – for example ‘their pet Siamese cat’, ‘the fast-paced Hollywood film’. A phrase does not ...

You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together using connectives, or joining words. Some common connectives include ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘then’. Using these can make your ...

grammar, and sentence structure it has today? That is a topic that would take far longer to parse through. Instead, Stacker looked at how some commonly used phrases and idioms came about in America.