Unless you have a photographic memory, it's challenging to remember where and even if to place apostrophes in constructions like these.

Reading is a reminder that many of the rules we walk around with in our heads simply do not govern.

I was taught that you shouldn't use contractions in work email. My co-worker says they’re fine. Who's right?

Remember sentence diagramming?

What would you do with the sentence “One percent of my classmates ____ (loves, love) grammar”?

What we agree on unites us. What we don’t agree on also often unites us—because it gets us talking and thinking.

The word “that” lies at the heart of many a grammar argument. The UWS's Roving Grammarian weighs in.

The Upper West Side's roving grammarian tackles plurals and possessives of proper nouns.

What is the etiquette of correcting other people’s grammar, or, put another way: Do you want friends? Thoughts from the Upper West Side's Roving Grammarian.

In a new biweekly column, Ellen Jovin, the UWS's own grammar guru, muses on our language lives. Up first: the Oxford comma.