“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers. Ellen Jovin, wearing a “Grammar Is Groovy” T-shirt, is the star of ...

I have been wondering how grammar terms received their names. Some of the origins are baffling. A noun, that part of speech that names people, places and things, comes from the Latin word "nomen," ...