Ellen Jovin is not the grammar police. She's more like a grammar guru, a gentle, nonjudgmental guide who knows English isn't etched into a linguistic stone, rigid and unchangeable. Instead, she knows ...

Ellen Jovin, an English language fanatic, was sitting in her New York apartment this summer feeling like it was too hot to do anything fun outside. So, she came up with an idea: a grammar table — ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

Four years ago I decided I needed to host a pop-up grammar-advice stand. The plan was simple: I’d sit on the streets of New York City and help people with their questions. I ordered a folding table, ...

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 ...

The heartwarming and often hilarious film follows Jovin — an author, consultant, grammar guru and student of 25 languages who exemplifies the word “linguaphile” — as she engages in playful yet ...

“What’s a gerund?” one of them asked. Charmed, Jovin explained that a gerund is a verb that has become a noun after an “ing” has been added to it. Run is a verb, she told them, but running is a gerund ...

Linguist and "Rebel Without a Clause" author Ellen Jovin at the Grammar Table. Alaska grammar nerds will be heartened to know that a self-described roving grammarian is in the state dispensing advice.

Snap Crackle and Every Little Helps - the language of food advertising Subtitles Interpreting for Mum and Dad Richard Osman's love of language The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison Psychiatrist and ...

I’ve sometimes idly wondered why so many people feel so strongly about grammar and the particular ways we write and speak. Think of the Twitter wars over the Oxford comma and Facebook arguments over ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On National Grammar Day, March 4, hundreds of grammar nerds will descend upon SVA Theatre at 333 West 23rd Street in Manhattan for the New York City premiere of ...