Archives for the 'Grammar' Category

• Continue and “Continue on”
• Some Perennial Grammar Questions
• Restrictive Appositives
• Beside and Besides
• Awoken or Awakened?
• Using “May” in a Question
• Participles and Perfect Verb Tenses
• “Fun, Funner, Funnest”?
• Learn the Forms of “drink,” Please!
• A Friend of Jim’s
• Could Have and Would Have
• “If” with conditional clause
• Preposition “near” Doesn’t Need a “to”
• Rich Halloween Moviemakers Hire Cheap Copywriters
• Who is Meant by “You”?
• “Access” and “access to”
• Slink, Shrink, and Wink
• Being and Been
• Comparative or Superlative?
• And Also
• Broadcast vs Broadcasted as Past Form
• Taking another Pass at “Passed”
• Feel Strong or Feel Strongly?
• Beware of the Irregular Past Participle Forms
• Word Inflation, or Unnatural Syntax?
• Ham and Eggs is or are?
• “Owing to” vs “Due to”
• Phrasal Verbs
• Royal Order of Adverbs
• Appositives and Possessives
• 10 Common ESL Mistakes
• Expletives
• Clauses and Phrases
• The Royal Order of Adjectives
• Who or That – That Is The Question
• Can And or But Begin a Sentence?
• Compared “to” or Compared “with”?
• Other, Another and “A Whole Nuther”
• The Subjunctive Mood
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Doing Good
• Choosing Between “If” and “Whether”
• “So” and “Therefore” Are Clumsy Companions
• The irrealis “were” can say hello to the Dodo
• Television and the Present Perfect Tense
• An Exercise in Ambiguity
• The DWT Twitter Account Is Here
• Verbing Nouns
• A Girl Like I
• What’s Wrong with “Ain’t”
• Is “Number” Singular or Plural?
• Fly, Flew, (has) Flown—-Flied?
• Verbs Like “Know”
• Principal Parts of the Verb TO FIT
• It’s Me vs It is I
• No Sooner Than (Not “When”)
• Sneaking up on “Snuck”
• The Many Faces of “Run”
• Modernizing Liturgical English
• Participles Fused and Otherwise
• An Unexpected Question About “You”
• I wish I were…
• Tastes Good Like/As If…?
• Trouble with “Did” and “Had”
• When Most is Enough
• Mixing up “lay” and “lie”
• Are “Gone,” “Taken,” and “Written” on the Way Out?
• What is a Split Infinitive?
• What is Dative Case?
• Should THAT Be Allowed to Stand In for WHO?
• Use Modal Verbs With Care
• Pronoun Use is NOT Rocket Science
• Is That a Noun or a Verb? I’m Confused
• Verbless Sentences
• Definitely use “the” or “a”
• BlogMastermind: A Training Program for Bloggers
• That vs. Which
• The Difference Between “will” and “shall”
• No Country for English
• Warning: Microsoft Did Not Invent Grammar!
• Give me an “A”: a vs. an
• Go Ahead, Put that Preposition at the End!
• Companies Are “it”, Not “they”
• What is the Difference Between “These” and “Those”?
• TV’s War on “Me” and “I”
• Six Rules for Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
• Comparative Forms of Adjectives
• Can You Start Sentences with “And” or “But”?
• The Many Forms of the Verb TO BE
• Needed: New Singular Possessive Adjective Combining “his” and “her”
• O Second Person Singular, Where Art Thou?
• Smart People, Bad Grammar
• 10 Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals
• Parallelism Prevents Bumpy Communication
• Five Frequently Misused Verbs: Go, Come, Write, Give, and Eat
• Lay/Lie: Moribund, but Not Dead Yet
• Idiomatic English
• Mind Your -ed’s
• Prepositions for the Perplexed
• When to use “on” and when to use “in”
• Me, Myself, and I
• The Possessive Apostrophe
• All Pronoun Cases Are Created Equal
• Coordinating Conjunctions
• Clauses that need companionship
• Using “a” and “an” Before Words
• Beware of “Whom”
• Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs and Heteronyms
• Compound Modifiers
• Contractions
• It’s or Its?

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