Co-ordinating units of writing must all be of the same grammatical kind. This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with ...

Feel like putting your word smarts to the test? See if you can spot a problem in the following sentence: “Jones has been featured on ‘Today,’ ‘60 Minutes’ and in such publications as People and the ...

My late mother had a pet peeve about the proper use of “me” and “I.” She measured your mental acuity, not to mention your socioeconomic standing, by whether you implicitly understood when to say ...