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Most of us take for granted that we have the power to monitor the passage of time, to know at…
Several listeners have asked when they should omit the subordinating conjunction “that” in their writing. For example, should you write…
A few years ago, I ran an episode about how I was hearing a lot of speakers saying “based off”…
In a recent podcast, I talked about some differences between British and American English, and I read a listener comment…
Jeffrey wrote in after he noticed that I pronounced “caramel” as “car-muhl” a few weeks ago, and that sounded wrong…
What you call a long, upholstered piece of living room furniture depends on where you live and when you were…
“Cannot” and “can not” might seem like they mean the same thing, but you use them in different ways. ‘Cannot’…
OK, let’s admit it. None of us really likes to apologize when we’ve done something wrong. In fact, the ways…
Mike wrote in with a question that I’ve always wondered about too. What’s up with the apostrophe in “Ruth’s Chris…
Today, as promised, we’ll talk about how to mix quotation marks with other punctuation. Quotation Marks with Commas and…