NEW YORK — Ellen Jovin was settling in at a portable table she’d set up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan last month when two little boys of around 4 and 5 approached her. “What’s a gerund?” one of ...
When a verb is the subject of a sentence, it needs to be in the -ing form. Often, the subject is the first word in a sentence ...
In one of the busiest subway stations in New York—amidst the bell ringers, toy salesmen, and those espousing religious beliefs—sits a woman wearing a leopard print coat and a smile, hoping to get the ...
From comma crises to capitalization conundrums, Ellen Jovin has the answers, and she wants to help. Jovin brought her traveling, pop-up Grammar Table to Charleston on Thursday morning to answer ...
IT was the book that made grammar sexy, but now one of Britain's leading language experts has launched a broadside at the zero-tolerance attitude of the best seller Eats, Shoots and Leaves. IT was the ...
NEW YORK — Ellen Jovin was settling in at a portable table she’d set up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan last month when two little boys of around 4 and 5 approached her. “What’s a gerund?” one of ...
“What’s a gerund?” one of them asked. “Are you related?” she then asked them. One boy said yes. The other said no. Then they started fighting. “No choking your brother at the Grammar Table!” Jovin ...