If you ever want to clear a room, a single word will usually do the trick: grammar. For anyone who had a hypercritical English teacher or a particularly persnickety aunt — and that’s a lot of us — the ...

Sex. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to discuss the fact that this sentence you’re reading is not necessarily a run-on sentence because run-on sentences are not simply sentences that run on ...

Letters represent sounds. Words are built from letters. A group of words makes a phrase. Add a subject and verb, and you have a clause. If that clause expresses a complete thought, we call it a ...

Payment clauses in California construction contracts are often complex and multi-layered. This is especially true in contracts between general contractors and their subcontractors. The general does ...

A severability clause lets certain contract parts remain valid, even if others are void. Learn about its definition, key ...

The Full Bench of Fair Work Australia (FWA) has spoken. Any clause proposed by a union in an enterprise agreement which requires that an employer only engage contractors with a union enterprise ...

Land disputes are very often about the interpretation of the words used in a lease or some other document. Dealings with land are based on the bargain struck between two parties, such as a buyer and ...

I have a correspondent I call Faxman who is a professor of accounting. He has the laudable desire to improve his M.B.A. students’ ability to write clear prose. This is a worthy endeavor, and I was ...

There is much hairsplitting over the word “parent” in Clause 12(4) of the Constitution where it says: “the religion of a person under the age of eighteen shall be decided by his parent or guardian.” ...