June Casagrande

If you’re the kind of person who chooses words carefully, that’s a good thing. Precise language begets precise communication, which improves the odds you’ll get your point across. But there’s

Many languages indicate ownership of something by using the word "of." But English often uses an apostrophe and S, sometimes unnecessarily.

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Whoever first said that did me a huge favor, considering how many times I’ve openly flaunted my ignorance rather than remain stuck

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de

One reader wanted to vent about “on accident” vs. “by accident.” Another had a bone to pick with Wall Street Journal editors who don't keep

Every time I see the preposition “towards” in an article I'm editing, I delete the S. I've been doing this as long as I can recall, decades, and it's been going on so long I don't even remember why.

Where and whether or not to use an apostrophe trips up a lot of card writers this time of year, but June Casagrande is here to help.

When I first started writing this column in the early aughts, readers would often complain to me about sentence-ending prepositions.

When I first started writing this column in the early aughts, readers would often complain to me about sentence-ending prepositions. Or, to put that ironically: Sentence-ending prepositions were things readers

Learning a new grammar term and how to conjugate a verb in another language are among the suggestions June Casagrande offers for 2025 learning.