Archives for July, 2016
- Many Ways to Break
- It’s All “Fine”
- Neologisms Come and Go
- Should There Be a Hyphen?
- 3 Sentences That Cause Confusion
- What Is a Doctor?
- Words for Bodies of Lawmakers
- Assure—I Mean, Ensure—Good Writing
- 5 Sentences with Misplaced Modifiers
- 5 Points About Parallel Structure
- 3 Strategies for Combining Sentences
- Writing Quiz #2: Job and Office Titles
- Words Ending in -aire
- When to Abbreviate, Etc.
- Adjectives Synonymous with “Best”
- 5 Ways to Make a Sentence More Concise
- 3 Cases of Complicated Parenthetical Punctuation
- Writing Quiz #1: Wordiness
- 7 Forms of Emphasis in Writing
- Words to Describe the Highest Point of Achievement
- 45 Idioms About Ordinal and Multiplicative Numbers
- Shades of Meaning in Names of Colors
- Conundrums, Puzzles, and Quizzes
- How English Became English
- Writing About Dogs
- Latin Plural Endings