This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

New transatlantic research led by a psychologist at the University of Kent suggests conservatives prefer using nouns. As part of the study researchers found that US presidents who were considered ...

A school of fish is a collective noun that refers to a specific group of things, animals, or people, all with a singular form. Credit: Georgette Douwma/Getty Images There are more than ten different ...

Is Anna Kendrick an actress or an actor? Is it ever okay to refer to her as a comedienne? These days, gender-specific nouns are often considered inappropriate. Our waiters and waitresses are now ...

A new study has found that parent word choice matters when encouraging preschool-age children to help others. Children were significantly more likely to help an experimenter when he or she referred to ...

Build sentences using noun groups. Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. Use your knowledge of adjectives to build and expand ...

MOST of us hate the icky feeling of seeing or hearing the same word over and over again in the same statement, as in this ...

Conservatives prefer using nouns, new transatlantic research suggests. The research also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their ...