grammar Archives - The American Scholar

When Nouns Verb Oddly

By Jessica Love | 11/13/2014 |

Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings

Anything Goes

By Rachel Hadas | 09/08/2014 |

Prose for the people

Going Non-Native

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 03/19/2013 |

How reading flawed English can make us better writers

Learning From Chaser

By Jennifer Henderson | 03/14/2013 |

Language Matters

By Michael Dirda | 11/16/2012 |

Style, substance, and the labor involved in getting it just so

Submissive Sentences

By Jessica Love | 02/09/2012 |

The Grammarian Was a He

By Jessica Love | 12/15/2011 |