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 sat in Rittenhouse Square at a table she’d hauled from her Manhattan home. Author of Rebel With a Clause, one of her four books on language, Jovin travels from city to city with what she ...