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Chandra asked, “Is it ‘each other’ or ‘eachother’? I never know whether it’s one word or two.” In standard English,…
Sometimes You Need a Comma With Participial Phrases, and Sometimes You Don’t Today, we’re revisiting the concept of restrictive versus…
So many of you asked whether a historic should have been an historic that I thought I’d better answer the…
You probably know what it means to write in the first person, but you may not be as confident about…
In a recent episode, you learned that adverbs do not always end in “-ly,” so perhaps you now think differently…
Today’s topic is active voice versus passive voice. Here’s a question from Brian in Iowa. He writes, “It drives me…
I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published…
Bonnie Trenga is going to help us get along with the word “get.” Don’t let others’ use of it get…
Today’s topic is “ain’t” and a few other troublesome contractions. To quote the famous opening lines of the first-ever talking…
Today Bonnie Trenga will help us talk about two kinds of peculiar questions. Isn’t that going to be fun!…