Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Years ago, a copy editor working on a reporter’s story changed some of the “whiches” to “thats” when ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...