Grammar

Here's how homonyms, homophones, and homographs are a little different from one another.

Bang, pow, pop! These are examples of onomatopoeia. If you need a refresher from elementary school, onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound.

Let's look at homophones. Have we piqued your interest? Here's a peek at how to differentiate between peak, peek, and pique.

What is irony? It takes many forms. Do you know when to use irony and how to use the different types?

Try out one of these advanced figures of speech. Learn about anaphora, chiasmus, metonymy and more.

Many of us grew up learning rigid grammar rules, and chief among them was the double negative. You couldn’t use them under any circumstance, and if you did, you’

There are a number of categories of proper nouns, including brand names, organizations, publications, buildings, course names, historical periods, and even languages or nationalities.

Here are some words that work perfectly fine on their own as a complete sentence – with a bit of conversational or situational context, of course.

Whether you need a refresher, or want to figure out some trivia about English grammar, here are the proper uses for gerunds.

Whether you’re keen on picking up a new language for fun, for travel, or new opportunities, this list of top tips — spanning practical advice to app recommendations — will have you well on your way to conversing in a new tongue.

What happens when lots of people mishear the same word or phrase? You get a weird new phrase that doesn’t make sense, but all those people using it, and it spreads.

If a word has Latin roots, chances are its plural form doesn’t follow the rule we know and love. You might be saying a bunch of plural words incorrectly without even realizing it.

Verb conjugations may seem scary, but there are predictable rules to follow. At least with regular verbs.

Let’s look at what happens to our brains as we grow up that makes it so challenging to learn a foreign language.

Here are some of the most common phrases that people say wrong — see how many you get right!

Many words you use every day have been touched by Greek or Latin. A huge portion of our English vocabulary starts off with a Latin or Greek prefix.

Your favorite writers have some advice for you. Scroll through these quotes to get your creative juices flowing so you can start (or finish) the story of your dreams.

All homographs hold different meanings and the same spelling, but depending on their pronunciation, they’re either heteronyms or homonyms.

A style guide is basically a glossary of rules to follow when writing. It establishes guidelines for how to write numbers, titles, addresses, punctuation, and anything else that could vary.

Infinitives are the basic forms of verbs. To sit, to eat, to think. But when the infinitive isn’t partnered with to, it’s called a bare infinitive.

It would be nice to have a simple, well-rounded rule for using colons and semicolons, but alas, there isn’t one. Let's look at the rules for colons and semicolons.

If fewest and least mean the same thing, why can’t we use them the same way? Is there really any difference between them?

There are lots of super common abbreviations that go way back to ancient Latin origins. Here’s what they are – and what they stand for.

Irregular verbs. These grammar anomalies have been lurking under your nose for years, and we’re finally going to highlight what they are and how to spot ‘em.

Check out these 12 sets of words most commonly thought to mean the same thing, but they really don't.