Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the “myth” that ...

Subordinating conjunctions are words that help show relationships between ideas. They join a main clause and a subordinate clause. Words like 'because', 'although', 'if' and 'until' are common ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...