Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

Lynne Truss is the author of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.” August 13, 2012 I can only speak for what’s happening in the U.K., but it seems to me that attitudes ...