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Grammar & Usage
Usage Notes
Prepositions, Ending a Sentence With
Yes, a preposition is something you can end with.
Hypercorrections: Are you making these 6 common mistakes?
When your 'correction' is incorrect
A Comprehensive Guide to Forming Compounds
Everything you need to know
Can ‘Criteria’ Ever Be Singular?
It depends on what you base your decision.
Singular Nonbinary ‘They’: Is it ‘they are’ or ‘they is’?
Notes on a conjugation
Is Singular 'They' a Better Choice?
The awkward case of 'his or her'
8 Grammar Terms You Used to Know, But Forgot
Plus yodeling
Fun, Funner, Funnest
Why does it sound strange to say 'funner' or 'funnest?'
Using Bullet Points ( • )
Is it 'graduated' or 'was graduated from'?
No, this will not be on the test
Can You Use 'Comprised of'?
It's been in use for centuries.
Fun! Funner!! Funnest!!!
We got a whole mess of fun here, folks
31 Useful Rhetorical Devices
Beyond 'simile' and 'metaphor'
Point of View: It's Personal
First, second, and third person explained
8 More Grammar Terms You Used to Know: Special Verb Edition
These grammarians are going places
Is 'Irregardless' a Real Word?
LOL, the look on your face right now.
33 Transition Words and Phrases
Words to help you jump from one idea to the next
‘Incommunicado’: We Won’t Be Silent on the Subject
When you just can't talk right now.
Is It 'Damp Down' or 'Tamp Down'?
We're not trying to be a wet blanket here.
On 'Currant,' 'Current,' and 'Courant'
We're raisin' the issues of the day.
Can 'bemuse' mean 'amuse'?
The word actually comes from the Muses
Hopefully
We believe the popular usage of this word is correct
'Whole Nother': Wrong or Right?
'Nother' is in fact a real word.
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