Archives for the 'Grammar' Category
- 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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