Archives for January, 2013
- Is That Even a Word?
- 5 Parallelism Problems in In-Line Lists
- More Answers to Questions About Commas
- How to Correct an Awkward Interruptive Phrase
- 50 Synonyms for “Villain”
- The Meanings and Connotations of “Junior” and “Senior”
- Plural But Singular in Construction
- 5 Examples of the Need for Multiple Hyphenation
- Answers to Questions About Abbreviations
- The Basics of Back-Formation
- 20 Names of Body Parts and Elements and Their Figurative Meanings
- Compound Words in Technological Contexts
- How to Test for Hyphenation in Phrasal Adjectives
- What Is a Sentence?
- 5 Examples of Misplaced Modifiers
- Fragmentary Sentences and Sentence Fragments
- 30 More Nautical Expressions
- 5 Erroneously Constructed “Not Only . . . But Also” Sentences
- 5 Errors in Treating Quotations
- 30 Problem Words and Phrases
- 5 Verbose Sentences Made Shorter
- 50 Idioms About Meat and Dairy Products
- 5 Errors of Restriction
- 3 Erroneous Uses of Scare Quotes
- 10 Tips About Basic Writing Competency
- 3 Problems of Nonparallel Interjections
- The Most Overused Words of 2012