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Monday, April 9th, 2012- Acronym
- Acronym vs Initialism
- ADJECTIVES
- ADRENALINE VS ADRENALIN
- ADVERBS
- an historic
- anxious vs eager
- apostrophe
- apostrophe abuse
- Apostrophe in Presidents Day
- beg the question
- beginning a sentence with and
- beginning a sentence with but
- bimonthly
- biweekly
- Bristol Punctuation Vigilante
- capitalization
- Colons
- comma
- commas between coordinate adjectives
- COMMON SPELLING ERRORS
- COMPARATIVES
- comparatives and superlatives
- compound adjectives
- compound modifiers
- conjunctions
- CONTINUAL AND CONTINUOUS
- COPY EDITING
- danglers
- dash
- decimate
- decimate usage
- DICTIONARIES
- DIFFERENT FROM VS DIFFERENT THAN
- DISJUNCTS CONJUNCTS ADJUNCTS
- done vs finished
- father's day
- faulty parallel
- FORGO AND FORGO
- Fused Participle
- GRAMMAR
- grammar peeves
- HEALTHCARE VS HEALTH CARE
- HOPEFULLY
- how to write holidays
- HYPHENATING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
- hyphenation
- hyphens
- IDIOMS
- immigrate emigrate migrate
- imperatives
- insure vs ensure
- IRREGARDLESS AND REGARDLESS
- Journalism Standards
- less vs fewer
- lighted vs lit
- LINKING VERBS
- LOAN VS LEND
- LOG IN VS LOGIN
- modifying phrases
- Most common grammar mistakes
- mother's day
- no problem
- OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS
- obscenity
- oxford comma
- PASSIVE VOICE
- past participles
- past tense
- period before a quotation mark
- PHRASAL VERBS
- PIQUE
- placement of only
- PLURALS
- Possessive with Gerund
- possessives
- prefixes
- PREPOSITIONS
- profanity
- PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
- PRONOUNS
- pronunciation of often
- proofreading
- PUNCTUATION
- quotation marks
- raise the question
- semimonthly
- semiweekly
- SENTENCE ADVERBS
- sentence diagramming
- SENTENCE WRITING
- serial comma
- SNEAK PEAK VS SNEAK PEEK
- SPELLING
- split infinitive
- STYLE
- SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
- suffixes
- terminal punctuation
- The Possessive of Jr.
- THE REASON IS BECAUSE
- THESE ONES
- TYPOS
- VERBS
- veterans day
- vocabulary
- When to Capitalize After a Colon
- who vs whom
- whom
- whomever
- WORD CHOICE
- WORD USAGE
- WRITING
- WRITING BOOKS
- WRITING STYLE
- ZERO RELATIVE PRONOUN
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