Quick Tip: Three Steps for Perfect Proofing
There’s a tedious but necessary final step before hitting “publish”: proofreading. If you’re anything like me, proofreading is the antithesis…
There’s a tedious but necessary final step before hitting “publish”: proofreading. If you’re anything like me, proofreading is the antithesis…
For nearly two years, I’ve written posts about grammar and usage, so clearly it’s a topic that I think is…
Without reruns, I would never have known the joys of Gilligan’s Island and Happy Days, of The Brady Bunch and…
Tasked this week with explaining how to properly use a semicolon, I thought immediately of the poster designed by the…
English usage snobs all over the internet shudder when they hear the word “literally” used to mean its opposite. For…
You may have heard of the subjunctive mood. You may even be a little bit afraid of it. But did…
Last week, Cheri featured a Freshly Pressed blog and suggested that apt use of metaphor had contributed to the post’s…
You might have noticed that we’re grammar nerds here at the Daily Post. While we’re healthily obsessed with the topic,…
About a year ago, I wrote a piece about the distinction between the active and the passive voice, but going…
The distinction between “affect” and “effect” trips up lots of people, but with one or two little mnemonics, you can…
Two coworkers independently asked me this week about verbs, and in particular about understanding the various ways of past tense…
Courtesy, as pretty much always, of Bryan A. Garner, here’s a list of 25 of the most commonly misspelled words…