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 ...

Just in case you aren't keenly aware yet of their value, the skillful use of appositives is an open secret to more engaging and lively writing. An appositive is a noun form that often comes directly ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, we talked about setting a parenthetical description off with commas in the grammatical phenomenon ...

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 ...

THE problem with most bad writing is that it's often so general and lacking in texture and depth. The people, places, or things used as subjects seem to exist only in two-dimensional space, as in a ...

“Idaho Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal, will be the featured keynote speaker for the ACES 2020 annual conference.” The tweet from the American Copy Editors Society drew immediate scrutiny. “Is this how ...