Browsing: Grammar
Today we’re going to get a bit negative by looking at the various times you can use the word “nor.”…
Nowadays, “people” is almost always the right choice when you are talking about more than one person. Some dictionaries don’t…
I always get a lot of questions about hyphens when I do my AP style webinars, and it’s not surprising…
Julien-Pier Belanger/Unsplash, CC BY By Jonathan L. Zecher, Australian Catholic University With some communities in rebooted lockdown conditions and movement restricted…
Brandon Sanderson is a #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author with more than 30 books, which have been published…
If you’re at all like me, you could live on desserts. That’s with two S’s in the middle. The downside…
When "Winter Wonderland" was written in the 1930s, "parson" was a term for Protestant or Anglican ministers. They would often travel from town to town performing wedding ceremonies for those who did not have a local minister of their own faith. "Parson Brown" doesn’t seem to refer to any significant historical figure from the time period and is more likely a fictional name.
One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is whether it’s acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. I…
Grammar Girl here, and today I’m going to tell you where it’s at! ‘Where It’s At’ Just kidding. I used…
A listener named Barbara wrote in wondering about the phrase “how come.” She wrote: The other day I was formulating…