The Local's French grammar tips. Image: Patick Fore_Meizhi Lang via Unsplash Getting to grips with French grammar is not easy - which is why we're starting our new series offering tips and tricks for ...

“If there were a Form 3, you would have already filled it out.” Reader Jessica had a question about a sentence like this. The speaker already knew about a Form 1 and a Form 2. The existence of Form 3, ...

Can you spot what’s wrong with that tweet? Besides the fact that millions of people retweeted a selfie, there’s a rather egregious grammatical error in the first ...

It is often bemoaned in Britain that English is going to pieces—and Americans are generally to blame. Whether you call it decline or not, the moaners are on to something: America has indeed produced ...

In "Fiddler on the Roof," the poor but patriarchal Tevye muses upon pleasures beyond his reach. "If I were a rich man," he sings. Today's profoundly perplexing question is: Should the beloved fiddler ...