The Grammar Instinct      

Back in 1990, Leonard and Gilsdorf presented 45 instances of questionable usage, in full-paragraph contexts, to both academics and working business executives. These usage elements included sentence fragments, assorted punctuation problems, pronoun–antecedent (dis)agreement, and various examples of questionable word choice. Their intent was to assess the “botheration level” of each usage “error”; their conclusions were that 1) academics are (nearly) always bothered by usage “errors” more than executives and 2) usage elements that bothered survey respondents the least were evolving over time into acceptable English usage. Just over ten years later, these same researchers have followed up on their original study and have drawn similar conclusions from the more recent data.

Manning, Alan D. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (2002). Articles>Language>Style Guides

Shifty Adverbs

Decide where to place the adverb in parentheses in these sentences to best advantage -- for the sound of it and for best sense. That is, place it near the word in the sentence you wish to emphasize. One sentence doesn't involve a decision about placement next to the verb at all.

Stoughton, Mary. Editorial Eye, The (2003). Articles>Language>Style Guides

Still Another Rule?  

Bush questions the wisdom of rigid grammatical rules that do not take into consideration the complexities of English.

Bush, Donald W. Intercom (2000). Articles>Language>Style Guides

Controlled Language – Does My Company Need It? 

Controlled languages use basis writing rules to simplify sentence structure. Here is how they work and how your company can benefit from introducing a controlled language.

Muegge, Uwe. TC World (2009). Articles>Language>Style Guides>Controlled Vocabulary