Archives for July, 2012
- Earthly vs. Earthy
- 3 Misplaced Modifiers
- 20 Synonyms for “Type”
- Ingenious vs. Ingenuous #2
- 25 German Loanwords
- 15 Great Word Games
- 3 Sentences with Dangling Modifiers
- 5 Words from the Kitchen
- 20 Evocative French Words
- “Fraught” Is a Heavy Word
- Prodigal vs. Prodigy
- 20 Words with More Than One Spelling
- 8 Types of Parenthetical Phrases
- Amiable vs. Amicable
- 40 Helpful Words Ending in -Ade
- Crack Writers Can Lay Easter Eggs
- Extraneous vs. Superfluous
- 3 Clarifications Thanks to Commas
- 5 Great American Humorists of the Early to Mid-20th Century
- Corporal vs. Corporeal
- 5 Problems with Parallelism
- 5 Sentence-Folding Fixes
- 12 Signs and Symbols You Should Know
- 5 School Signs That Earn an F
- Directions for Direct Address
- Good Advice About Bad Writing