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Monday, December 1st, 2014Tags: GRAMMAR, WORD USAGE, WRITING BOOKS
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Good Verbs, Lame Verbs: A Look at Three Writers
Monday, September 1st, 2014Tags: VERBS, WRITING BOOKS
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'Actually' and Similar Adverbs
Sunday, March 23rd, 2014Tags: ADVERBS, COPY EDITING, WRITING, WRITING BOOKS
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'Notoriously Known'
Sunday, March 23rd, 2014Tags: ADVERBS, COPY EDITING, WRITING BOOKS
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The En Dash
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013Tags: COPY EDITING, PUNCTUATION, WRITING BOOKS, WRITING STYLE
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What to Capitalize in a Headline
Monday, January 7th, 2013Tags: capitalization, COPY EDITING, WRITING BOOKS
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When Did America Toss Its British Accent?
Monday, September 10th, 2012Tags: GRAMMAR, WRITING BOOKS
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Ten Ways Strunk and White Will Let You Down
Monday, July 2nd, 2012Tags: GRAMMAR, WORD USAGE, WRITING BOOKS
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Ten Ways Strunk and White Will Let You Down
Monday, June 4th, 2012Tags: GRAMMAR, STYLE, WRITING BOOKS
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Mama vs. Momma and Other Kinship Names
Monday, April 9th, 2012Tags: SPELLING, STYLE, WORD CHOICE, WRITING BOOKS
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- Acronym
- Acronym vs Initialism
- ADJECTIVES
- ADRENALINE VS ADRENALIN
- ADVERBS
- ADVERSE AND AVERSE
- AGGRAVATE AND IRRITATE
- an historic
- anxious vs eager
- apostrophe
- apostrophe abuse
- Apostrophe in Presidents Day
- BEACH GOER OR BEACHGOER
- beg the question
- beginning a sentence with and
- beginning a sentence with but
- ben zimmer
- bimonthly
- biweekly
- BOOK TITLES IN ITALICS
- BOOK TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
- BORED BY OR BORED OF OR BORED WITH
- Bristol Punctuation Vigilante
- capitalization
- CITE and SIGHT
- Colons
- comma
- COMMA AFTER INC
- COMMA AFTER STATE
- COMMA AFTER YEAR
- COMMA SPLICE
- COMMAS
- commas around inc.
- commas between coordinate adjectives
- COMMAS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
- COMMON SPELLING ERRORS
- COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS
- COMPARATIVES
- comparatives and superlatives
- compound adjectives
- compound modifiers
- conjunctions
- CONTINUAL AND CONTINUOUS
- COPULAR VERBS
- copy editin
- COPY EDITING
- COULD CARE LESS VS COULDN'T CARE LESS
- COULD OF and COULD HAVE
- danglers
- dash
- decimate
- decimate usage
- DICTIONARIES
- DIFFERENT FROM VS DIFFERENT THAN
- DIRECT OBJECTS
- DISINTERESTED UNINTERESTED
- DISJUNCTS CONJUNCTS ADJUNCTS
- done vs finished
- DREAMED VS DREAMT
- EDITING
- EN DASH VS EM DASH
- enormity
- father's day
- faulty parallel
- FAZE and PHASE
- FLAT ADVERBS
- FORGO AND FORGO
- Fused Participle
- GRADUATE COLLEGE OR GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE
- GRAMMAR
- grammar peeves
- grammar phobia
- HANGED VS HUNG
- HEALTHCARE VS HEALTH CARE
- HISTORIC VS HISTORICAL
- HOME IN VS HONE IN
- HOPEFULLY
- how to write holidays
- HYPHENATING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
- HYPHENATING SUFFIXES
- hyphenation
- hyphens
- I FEEL BAD VS I FEEL BADLY
- IDIOMS
- if and whether
- immigrate emigrate migrate
- imperatives
- IMPORTANTLY
- INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
- INDIRECT OBJECT
- INDIRECT OBJECT PRONOUN
- insure vs ensure
- IRREGARDLESS AND REGARDLESS
- john dowd
- Journalism Standards
- LAY AND LIE
- less vs fewer
- lighted vs lit
- LINKING VERBS
- LITERALLY
- LOAN VS LEND
- LOG IN VS LOGIN
- modifying phrases
- Most common grammar mistakes
- mother's day
- MYRIAD VS A MYRIAD OF
- NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY
- no problem
- object complement
- OBJECT PRONOUN
- OBJECT PRONOUNS
- OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS
- obscenity
- oxford comma
- PASSIVE VOICE
- past participles
- past tense
- PAST TENSE OF LAY
- PAST TENSE OF SLAY
- period before a quotation mark
- PERIODS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
- PHRASAL VERBS
- PIQUE
- placement of only
- plead pled
- PLURALS
- Possessive with Gerund
- possessives
- prefixes
- PREPOSITIONS
- PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPLE
- PRINCIPLE and PRINCIPAL
- profanity
- PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
- PRONOUNS
- pronunciation of often
- proofreading
- PUNCTUATION
- quotation marks
- raise the question
- REIN vs REIGN
- ROB AND BURGLARIZE
- semimonthly
- semiweekly
- SENTENCE ADVERBS
- sentence diagramming
- SENTENCE WRITING
- serial comma
- SITE
- SNEAK PEAK VS SNEAK PEEK
- SPEECH TAGS
- spell check fail
- SPELLING
- split infinitive
- STYLE
- SUBJECT PRONOUNS
- SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
- SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
- suffixes
- TENSE SHIFTS
- terminal punctuation
- The Possessive of Jr.
- THE REASON IS BECAUSE
- THESE ONES
- TRANSITIVE VERBS
- TYPOS
- UNCLEAR ANTECEDENTS
- VERB TENSES
- VERBS
- veterans day
- vocabulary
- What Does Hoi Pollio Mean
- When to Capitalize After a Colon
- WHEN TO HYPHENATE PREFIXES
- WHO AND WHOM
- who vs whom
- WHOA WOAH WHOAH
- whom
- whomever
- WORD CHOICE
- WORD USAGE
- WRITING
- WRITING BOOKS
- WRITING STYLE
- ZERO RELATIVE PRONOUN
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