Archives for April, 2012
- Preventative vs. Preventive
- 36 Adjectives Describing Light
- Bonds vs. Bounds
- 10 Tacky Terms
- Write How You Write, Not How You Speak
- 10 Metals and Minerals for Metaphors
- How to Form Plurals of Compound Nouns
- 20 Words for That Certain Something
- It’s Acceptable to Use (Some) Contractions
- Discrepancy vs. Disparity
- A Quiz About Hyphenating Phrasal Adjectives
- 11 Forms of Word Patronage to Forgo
- 4 Rules for Setting Designations off with Commas
- 60 Synonyms for “Walk”
- The Ups and Downs of “Left” and “Right”
- A Few Rounds About Bullet Lists
- 5 Words Caught in Semantic Drift
- Prone vs. Supine
- The Suffix “-esque” and the Like
- Stay a While and Learn About “Sojourn”
- 20 Verbs Smothered by “Be”s
- 20 Rules About Subject-Verb Agreement
- A Quiz About Compressing Accordion Sentences
- 7 Similar but Distinct Word Pairs
- How to Write Headlines and Subheads