The Preposition Placement Rule You May Be Misusing
With the rise of texts, Tweets, and other casual communication, it’s easier than ever for writers to find style and…
Grammar Tips
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Sentence Modifiers: Know Their Place, and Don’t Leave Them Hanging
Want to write something totally unbelievable? It’s really easy if you use dangling or misplaced modifiers. Any word or phrase…
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Counting the Individuals, the Masses and the Indeterminate: Countable and Uncountable Nouns
There’s almost a beauty to the overlapping of categorizations in the Venn diagram of nouns. Teenagers are concrete and countable. But, as…
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Get a Good Laugh With Misplaced Modifiers
Did your mom ever call out the entire list of your siblings’ or pets’ names before getting to yours? I…
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How To Fix an Unclear Antecedent
Just like a bad stand-in can ruin a scene in a blockbuster film, an unclear antecedent can ruin a sentence.…
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Gaining Perspective: What Is 2nd-Person Point of View?
Choosing a point of view before writing is as important as coming up with a storyline. The perspective you take…
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Subject/Verb Disagreement No More!
I cringe every time my two-year-old son brings me a toy proclaiming that “it don’t work,” not only because he…
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The Point of Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives
Have you ever had someone point a finger at you to emphasize an argument or position? I remember an elementary…
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How To Find the Indirect Object of a Sentence
My son loves doing “science experiments.” He’s 4, so a lot of his “research” involves mixing things together and trying…
