Browsing: Grammar
My life is super exciting, so Friday night I was looking through the galleys of the new edition of the…
Sometimes directional terms such as south are capitalized and sometimes they aren’t. Directions: Lowercase When you’re describing a direction, south…
Once you learn about comma splices, you notice them everywhere, and a listener named Jo has started noticing them. She…
Two weeks ago, we talked about comma splices—errors that happen when you join two main clauses with just a comma–but…
Back in April after the style guide updates that came out of the American Copy Editors Society meeting, I told…
I used to be a terrible cook. One problem was that I would get distracted and end up burning things…
In last week’s podcast, we talked about how Captain R.F. Scott’s sick ponies might have been a harbinger of the…
Language is one of the most remarkable characteristics that separates humans from other animals. Despite the many remarkable abilities of…
Today’s episode is about parts of speech and the interesting gray area between prepositions and adverbs. Let’s start with the…
Most sources say that the correct past tense is pleaded. Squiggly pleaded guilty. That dirty rotten scoundrel. Garner’s Modern…