Archives for the 'Grammar' Category

A Quiz About Misplaced Modifiers
A Quiz About Clarity
A Quiz About Parallel Structure
10 Types of Hypercorrection
5 Alternatives to Hyphenating Phrasal Adjectives
Put Adverbs in Their Place
Exceptions in the Rules of Hyphenation
Put Adjectives in Their Place
10 Modes of Modifiers
7 Patterns of Sentence Structure
A Short Quiz About Parallel Construction
7 More Fixes for Dangling Modifiers
A “Not Only . . . But Also” Quiz
5 Rules About Conjunctive Adverbs
7 Classes of Phrases
20 More Smothered Verbs Set Free
Plurals of Proper Names
Bad vs. Badly
Flat Adverbs Are Flat-Out Useful
9 Forms of the Past Tense
The Many Forms of Plurals
Is “They” Acceptable as a Singular Pronoun?
5 Ways to Reduce Use of Prepositions
7 Types of Euphemism
7 Editing Pet Peeves
A Case for Technical Grammar Skills
A Guide to Elliptical Constructions
Why Is Advertising So Hostile to Hyphens?
7 Other Types of Pronouns
7 Classes of Noun/Verb Agreement
10 Varieties of Syntax to Improve Your Writing
5 Fluctuating Forms of Gender-Specific Language
5 Pairs of Compound Words, and How They’re Compounded
Facts About Phrasal Verbs
When a Pronoun is the “Subject” of an Infinitive…
10 Tips to Balance Parallel Sentence Structure
How to Get into a Subjunctive Mood
Who Cares About “Whom” Anymore?
Adverbs Are Really Quite Acceptable
One Never Knows, Does One?
“To Be,” or Not “To Be”?
5 Ways to Work Your Way Around the Weak “With”
10 Sentences with Muddled Meanings Made Clear
7 Cases in Which the Name Is Not the Thing
Coordinate and Noncoordinate Adjectives
“That” Is Not Always Necessary
7 Tactical Fixes for Syntactical Impact
5 Points on Proper Usage for Proper Nouns
7 Dos for Dangling Modifiers
7 Solutions for Sentences with Problematic Parallels
5 Tips for Fixing “Not Only . . . But Also” Errors
5 Lessons for Mixing Past and Present Tense
7 Grammatical Errors That Aren’t
Misplaced Modifiers Mix Meanings
7 Examples of Passive Voice (And How To Fix Them)
5 Billboard Taglines That Advertise Errors
5 Ways to Set Smothered Verbs Free
The Problem with Grammar Check
A Person Is Not a “They.” Neither Is an Army.
Does Your Dictionary Rule?
Compound Modifiers: Man-Eating Shark or Man Eating Shark?
The Case of the Misplaced Modifier
Car-Wreck Compounds
“There’s” and “There are”
Explaining the Explanation Regarding “than he”
Taller Than He
“Democrat” is a Noun
Language Lovers Unite!
Noun Clauses
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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